Question

A teacher plans to buy 5 pencils for each student in her class. Pencils come in packages of 18 and cost $1.99 per package. What is the cost per pencil?

Answer 1

You divide the total pencils by the price, each pencil is $0.11 :)
 1.99 / 18

Answer 2

As per the problem , we have

Pencils come in packages of 18 and cost $1.99 per package.

As we know if price of n item is$ x then , then the price of one item is $ $\frac{x}{n}$

Here we are given that ,

Total number of pencil in the package$=18$

Price of the package=$1.99

Hence price of one pencil=$\frac{1.99}{18}= 0.1105$

The cost per pencil=$0.1105