Mr. Spears was purchasing supplies for his math classroom. He had $25 to spend. Mechanical pencils and erasers come in bundles of 10. Each eraser costs $0.50. Fill in the missing place in the equation to compute the cost of each mechanical pencil.(1 point)

Question

___(x + 0.50)=25

Answer 1

Let's assume the cost of each mechanical pencil is x.
So, the cost of each bundle of mechanical pencils is 10x.
The cost of each eraser is $0.50.
The total cost of all the mechanical pencils and erasers = $25.
So the equation becomes:
10x + 0.50 = 25
Now, we can solve for x.