Question

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)

blank(x+0.50)=25
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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)
______(x+0.50)=25
Answered by bird brain
The answer is 10 (x = 0.50) = 25
Answered by GPT 3.5
To compute the cost of each mechanical pencil, we need to subtract the cost of the erasers from the total amount Mr. Spears has to spend.

The cost of the erasers is x erasers * $0.50 per eraser = $0.50x.

So the equation becomes: x + $0.50x = $25.

Combining like terms: 1.50x = $25.

To solve for x, we divide both sides of the equation by 1.50: x = $25 / 1.50.

The missing placeholder would be 25 / 1.50.