Mr spears was purchasing supplies for his math classroom. He had $25 to spend. Mechanical pencils and erarsers come in bundles of 10. Each eraser costs $.50. Fill in the missing place in the equation to compute the cost of each mechanical pencil

Question

___ (x + 0.50 = 25)

Answer 1

Let's solve the equation to find the cost of each mechanical pencil.

First, we subtract 0.50 from both sides of the equation:

x + 0.50 - 0.50 = 25 - 0.50

This simplifies to:

x = 24.50

Therefore, the missing place in the equation is 24.50. So, the cost of each mechanical pencil is $24.50.