Question

Every week, Judy goes to the supermarket and buys the following: $5$ carrots at $\$1$ each, $3$ bottles of milk at $\$3$ each, $2$ pineapples at $\$4$ each, $2$ bags of flour at $\$5$ each, and a giant $\$7$ container of ice cream. This week the store has a sale and pineapples are half price. Judy also has a coupon for $\$5$ off any order of $\$25$ or over. How much money does Judy spend on this shopping trip

Answer 1

She spends $30 in total.

Explanation:

Suppose that you buy X units of a given product with a price Y, then the total cost here is X*Y, with this we can solve our problem:

Every week Judy buys:

5 carrots, at $1 each, so she spends 5*$1 = $5 in carrots.

3 bottles of milk at $3, so she spends 3*$3 = $9 in milk bottles.

2 pineapples at $4 each (but the pineapples are at half price, so this week the pineapples cost $4/2 = $2), so she spends 2*$2 = $4 in pineapples.

2 bags of flour at $5 each, so she spends 2*$5 = $10 in flour.

1 giant container of ice cream, she spends $7 on it.

So the total money that she speends is:

$5 + $9 + $4 + $10 + $7 = $35

And she has a coupon for $5 in any order equal to or larger than $25, his order is larger than $25, so she can use the coupon.

So she will spend a total of $35 - $5 = $30

She spends $30 in total.