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

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

GPT 3.5 · Accepted Answer

Since each eraser costs $0.50, and Mr. Spears wants to spend $25, the equation can be written as: 10x + 0.50 = 25 Therefore, the cost of each mechanical pencil is 10.

mushroom · Answer

A school plans to spend twice the amount it did last year on its winter dance, less the cost of the disco ball which was $150, since they have it from last year. A total of $1,500 is being spent this year. Fill in the blanks to write an equation that will determine the amount of last year’s budget, a .(2 points)
(a - ) =

GPT 3.5 · Answer

Since the school plans to spend twice the amount it did last year on the winter dance, less the cost of the disco ball, the equation can be written as:

(a - 150) = 1500

Therefore, the amount of last year's budget (a) can be found by adding 150 to $1500.

mushroom · Answer

Stan took Lily to his friend’s restaurant on a date. The friend told the waiter to remove the $12 dessert from Stan’s bill. Stan tipped the waiter 20% on the reduced bill, which was a $15 tip. Fill in the blanks to write an equation that will determine the amount of the original bill, b .(2 points)
(b − ) =

GPT 3.5 · Answer

Since the friend told the waiter to remove the $12 dessert from Stan's bill, and Stan tipped the waiter 20% on the reduced bill, the equation can be written as:

(b - 12) = 15

Therefore, the amount of the original bill (b) can be found by adding $15 to $12.

mushroom · Answer

Molly has 6 grandchildren. She likes to be fair and buy gifts for all of them at the same time. She found jigsaw puzzles, each discounted by 50¢. Find the original cost of each puzzle if she spent a total of $27.(1 point)
Each puzzle cost $.

GPT 3.5 · Answer

If each jigsaw puzzle was discounted by 50¢, the original cost of each puzzle can be represented as:

x - 0.50

where x is the original cost of each puzzle.

Since Molly spent a total of $27, the equation can be written as:

6(x - 0.50) = 27

Simplifying the equation:

6x - 3 = 27

Adding 3 to both sides:

6x = 30

Dividing both sides by 6:

x = 5

Therefore, the original cost of each puzzle was $5.

mushroom · Answer

Ethan had 7 of his friends over. He ordered cheese pizzas and mozzarella sticks for the 8 of them. In all, there were 64 pieces of food. If each person had 5 slices of pizza, find the number of mozzarella sticks each person ate.(1 point)
Each person ate mozzarella sticks.

GPT 3.5 · Answer

If each person had 5 slices of pizza, and there were 8 people in total, then a total of 8*5 = 40 slices of pizza were eaten.

If there were 64 pieces of food in total, and 40 of them were pizza slices, then the remaining 64 - 40 = 24 pieces must be mozzarella sticks.

Since there were 8 people in total, each person ate 24/8 = 3 mozzarella sticks.

Therefore, each person ate 3 mozzarella sticks.