Question

A store sells mugs. Each mug costs the same amount. During a sale, the store reduces the price of each mug by $1.75. Wen spends $28.20 on 5 mugs at the sale price.

I'm not that good at math

Answer 1

I’m assuming the question is what is the price of one mug WITHOUT the sale.

So since the price of 5 mugs is $28.20, we can work out the price of one mug with the sale.

We do this by doing:

$28.20 / 5

Which gives us:

$5.64 per mug during the sale.

To work out the price of a mug without the sale, we simply add on the amount that has been taken off (which we know is $1.75 because the question says so):

$5.64 + $1.75 = $7.39

Therefore we can conclude the price of a mug without a sale is $7.39

And the price of a mug during the sale is $5.64.

I hope this helps!