A company buys pens at the rate of 5.50

A company buys pens at the rate of $5.50 per box for the first 10 boxes, $4.50 per box for the next 10 boxes, and $3.50 per box for any additional boxes. how many boxes of pens can be bought for $177.00?

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Grade 12 · 2021-07-15

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A company buys pens at the rate of $5.50 per box for the first 10 boxes, $4.50 per box for the next 10 boxes, and $3.50 per box for any additional boxes. how many boxes of pens can be bought for $177.00?

Benjamin

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So it is really easy to solve firstly we can see how much does the first 10 boxes make which makes around 55$ obviously. Secondly 45$ for the next 10 boxes.

So for now we can simply calculate that we have spent around 100$ which means 20 boxes. The remaining money le is 77$ so we can buy 77/3.5 = 22 only 22 boxes with that money. Hence a total of 42 boxes.

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For this exercise, we have 221 equal to 7.5 times 10 Plus 5.5 times 10 plus 3.5 X. So we know there's 20 plus x boxes and 221 is going to equal 75 plus 55 Plus 3.5 x. Thus to 21 -75 -55 equals 91 Divided by 3.5 equals 26, So 20 plus 26 is equal to 46. And that's the solution to this exercise.

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