Mr Spears was purchasing supplies for his math classroom he had 25 dollars to spend mechanical pencils and erasers come in bundles of 10 each eraser cost 50 cents in the missing place in the equation to compute the cost of each mechanical pencil

Answer 1

To compute the cost of each mechanical pencil, we need to determine the cost of the erasers first.

Since each eraser costs 50 cents and they come in bundles of 10, the cost of each bundle of erasers is 10 * 0.50 = $<<10*0.50=5>>5.

Now, we can set up the equation to find the cost of each mechanical pencil: $25 - $5 = $<<25-5=20>>20.

So, each mechanical pencil would cost $20 divided by the number of mechanical pencils. However, the missing information in the equation makes it impossible to compute the exact cost of each mechanical pencil.