Question

Ezekiel is shopping for school supplies. He has $15 to buy pens and pencils. Ezekiel spends $8 on pencils and plans to use the rest of the money to buy pens. Each pen costs $0.50.

If x represents the number of pens that Ezekiel buys, the equality
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can be used to find the total number of pens that Ezekiel can buy.

Ezekiel can buy a total of
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pens.

Answer 1

Answer: 14 pens

Explanation:

In order to solve this equation you first need to subtract 8 from 15 since the $8 was already used. So after we subtract we can conclude that Ezekiel has $7 left to spend on pens. To figure out how many pens Ezekiel can buy you would use the equation 0.50p=7 you would solve for p, and you would then get 14.