There is a 25 cent discount per apple if 4 are purchased. Eve was making apple pie this weekend and bought 12 apples for $15. To find the original price of each apple, which represents the operation done first when solving arithmetically?

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divide 15 by 12

add 0.25

subtract 0.25

divide 12 by 15

Answer 1

To find the original price of each apple before any discounts were applied, we need to first calculate the price per apple after the discount, and then consider the discount.

Eve bought 12 apples for $15, so to find the price per apple after the discount, you would divide 15 by 12:

divide 15 by 12

After finding the price per apple after the discount, you could then add the discount back (0.25) to find the original price before the discount was applied.

Thus, the operation done first is divide 15 by 12.