Answer:
$2.00
Explanation:
Stephen bought 1 package for $0.50. His brother bought 4 times as many (4 * 1 packages). Which means his brother bought 4 packages.
If each package costs $0.50 then we simply multiply the price with the amount of packages he bought:
4 * $0.50. Lets get rid of the dollar sign, so it doesn't distract us.
I'm not sure if you studied about floating point numbers yet, but I assume you did.
4 * 0.50 =?
We have two numbers after the floating point, but for the sake of simplicity we can get rid of it too and just multiply 4 * 50 and then put the floating point back into the number after the first two digits (because we removed it after two digits 0.50)
Anyway 4 * 50 = 200
We add the floating point and get:
2.00
Therefore his brother spent $2.00 after we add the dollar sign back in