For a birthday party, Mr. Perkins orders 8 chocolate chip cookies and 16 sugar cookies. Each cookie is the same price. He also picks up a cupcake for himself, which costs $2.75. The total bill is $44.03. What is the cost of a cookie?
1 Answer
Dec 6, 2017
Each cookie is $1.72.
Explanation:
Since each cookie is the same price, for now you add 8 and 16, which equals 24. Now, Mr. Perkins has also bought a cupcake which is $2.75. We also know that the total amount of everything Mr. Perkins buys is going to be $44.03.
Next thing to do after adding all the cookies is to subtract the price of the cupcake from the total to get rid of it and focus on the cookies. When you subtract $2.75 from $44.03, there will now be $41.28.
We know that there are 24 cookies and they are all the same price. All we have to do know is divide 24 from 41.28 to be able to find out the cost of each cookie. When we divide it leads us to $1.72. This means that each cookie is $1.72.
