Question

A long year-end status report for work is 143 pages long. You need to print 13 copies for a meeting next week. How much is the paper going to cost for those reports? Paper is sold in reams (500 pages) for $3.80 each.$___

Answer 1

Since the report is 143 pages long, the original and 13 copies are needed, the total amount of paper is given by their product.

$143\times(1+13)=2002$

The paper is sold in reams with 500 pages each. If we divide the total amount of paper by the ream amount, we're going to find the desired amount of reams.

$\frac{2002}{500}=4.004$

Since we can't buy 0.004 of a ream, we round the amount of reams up to 5. 5 reams are needed. Since the unitary price of a ream is $3.80, the cost of 5 reams is given by the product between the unitary price by the amount of reams.

$5\times3.80=19.00$

The cost of the paper to print the status report and its copies is $19.00.