Billy and Julia go to the Sportorama store to buy baseball jerseys. The store is having a sale. If you buy one jersey at the regular price, the second jersey is half price. You must pay full price for the more expensive jersey. Billy wants to buy a jersey for thirty five dollars and ninety-eight cents. Julia wants to buy a jersey for forty-nine dollars and ninety-six cents. Julia suggests they but the jerseys together and each of them pay half the total cost. How much does each person save by following Julia’s suggestion?

Answer 1

Together they pay 49.96 + 35.98/2 = 67.95
so each pays half of that. now finish it off.