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

To determine the cost of each mechanical pencil, let's denote the cost of each mechanical pencil as \( x \).

Mr. Spears is buying bundles of mechanical pencils and erasers, and the total cost of the mechanical pencils and erasers must add up to $25. Since erasers come in bundles of 10 and each eraser costs $0.50, the cost for one bundle of 10 erasers would be:

\[ 10 \times 0.50 = 5 \]

Now, if Mr. Spears buys \( y \) bundles of mechanical pencils, the equation representing the total cost becomes:

\[ yx + 5 = 25 \]

However, for the equation you've provided, we'll focus just on the cost of the mechanical pencils and the cost of the erasers.

If we consider he might be purchasing 10 erasers, we have:

\[ x + 0.50 = 25 \]

This implies that \( x \), the total cost of mechanical pencils must be equal to \( 25 - 0.50 \):

\[ x + 0.50 = 25 \]

So, in this case, where \( x \) represents the total cost of mechanical pencils, the equation would be:

\[ x + 0.50 = 25 \]

Thus, the cost of each mechanical pencil (if he buys a certain number of them) leads us to fill:

\[ \textbf{(x + 0.50)} \]

So, the completed equation with the missing place filled in becomes:

\[ x + 0.50 = 25 \]

Thus, the cost of mechanical pencils would be \( x = 25 - 0.50 = 24.50 \). Each mechanical pencil's cost will depend on how many he buys.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I apologize for the confusion.

The completed equation, to find the cost of mechanical pencils per bundle he is purchasing, looks like this:

\[ \textbf{( x + 0.50 ) = 25} \]

Where \( x \) represents the total cost of the mechanical pencils he is buying.

If \( x \) represents the total cost of the mechanical pencils and \( 0.50 \) is for the cost of 10 erasers, then the equation balances correctly to equal $25. If you can provide more specifics (like the number of mechanical pencils he plans to buy), we can refine that further. But based on the information given, that's the filled-in equation.

Answer 4

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)
__Fill_in__(x + 0.50)=25

Answer 5

To fill in the missing place in the equation \( __(x + 0.50) = 25 \), we need to understand Mr. Spears’s situation.

1. Each eraser costs $0.50, and since he is likely buying 10 erasers (since they come in bundles of 10), the total cost for the erasers he buys would be: \[ 10 \times 0.50 = 5 , \text{dollars} \]

2. Therefore, the total cost spent on erasers is $5.

3. Mr. Spears has a total of $25 to spend, which means the amount spent on mechanical pencils can be represented as \( x \).

Putting this all together, since the total amount spent on both mechanical pencils and erasers is $25, we can express this as: \[ x + 5 = 25 \]

From this, we can see that \( x \) (the cost of mechanical pencils) equals \( 25 - 5 \): \[ x = 20 \]

Given the equation you provided: \[ __ (x + 0.50) = 25 \]

We can see that \( 5 \) represents the cost of the erasers. Thus, we can fill in the missing part with 5:

So the completed equation is: \[ 5 (x + 0.50) = 25 \]