Question

A baseball bat costs $41. This is $9 more than four times the wholesale cost of the bat.Find the bat's wholesale cost.

Answer 1

The bat's wholesale cost is $8

Explanation:

You first have to subtract 9 from 41 as that will be 4 times the wholesale cost, which is $32. Then you have to divide 32 by 4, as we want to get the wholesale cost, not 4 times of the wholesale cost, and this would give us the wholesale cost, which is $8.

Answer 2

We can find the bat's wholesale cost by working backwards -

Do $41 - 9 to get $32, then we can divide the 32 by the 4 to get $8.

Therefore, the wholesale cost of the bat is $8.

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