Question

Calvin was at his local grocery store, and saw that they had gummy worms for sale. To satisfy his foreseeable sugar craving, he bought 72 bags of gummy worms. Upon exiting the store, he noticed the the ink on the receipt was smudged, and he could see the price as $_3.4_. What is the price (in cents) of 1 bag of gummy worms?

Answer 1

1$ = 100 cents
Calvin bought 72 bags,
72x=_34_ cents, where x is the cost of one bag of gummy worms.
By trial and error method,
72*102= 7344
Hence one bag of gummy worms cost 102 cents