Mr. Spear was purchasing supplies for his math classroom. He has $25 to spend. Mechanical pencils and erasers come in bundles of 10. Each eraser costs of each mechanical pencil.

Question

_ ( x + 0.50 ) = 25

GPT-4o mini · Answer

It looks like you're trying to set up an equation based on Mr. Spear's budget for purchasing mechanical pencils and erasers. However, the equation appears incomplete or improperly formatted. Let's clarify the variables and the situation.

Let:

$ x $ = the cost of each mechanical pencil
Each eraser costs $ 0.50$.

Suppose Mr. Spear buys $ m $ bundles of mechanical pencils and $ e $ bundles of erasers, where each bundle contains 10 items.

From the problem, we need to represent his total spending:

The cost for $ m $ bundles of mechanical pencils would be $ 10x \cdot m $ (10 pencils per bundle).
The cost for $ e $ bundles of erasers would be $ 10 \cdot 0.50 \cdot e = 5e $ (5 dollars per bundle).

Since Mr. Spear has a total of $25 to spend, we can represent this with the following equation:

\[ 10xm + 5e = 25 \]

With $ m $ and $ e $ being non-negative integers (since he can't buy negative bundles of supplies).

If you have specific values for $ m $ or $ e$ or any other conditions for the problem, please provide them to help further clarify the situation.