Question

Sophie bought snacks for her team's practice. She bought a bag of chips for $2.49 anda 12-pack of juice bottles. The total cost before tax was $27.57. Write and solve anequation which can be used to determine x, how much each bottle of juice costs?

Answer 1

Cost of a bag of chips is $ 2.49.

The number of juice bottles is 12

The total cost is $ 27.57.

Let x be the cost of a juice bottle. Therefore we have,

`2.49+12x=27.57`

On solving, x can be calculated as,

`\begin{gathered} 12x=27.57-2.49 \\ 12x=25.08 \\ x=(25.08)/(12)=2.09 \end{gathered}`

Thus, the cost of each juice bottle is $2.09.