At the movie theater, you decide to buy some buttered popcorn and a cold soda. You notice that the popcorn costs $2.00 plus half its price and soda costs $1.00 plus half its price. If you buy one bag of popcorn and one soda, what will be the total cost excluding any tax? Be careful, this is more tricky than it looks!

1 answer

2 + 1 + 1 + 0.5 = $4.50