Question

Stephen bought a package of stickers for $0.50. His brother bought 4 times as many packages. How much did his brother spend? (3 points) a $2.00 b $2.25 c $2.50 d $3.00

Answer 1

a $2.00

Step-by-step explanation:

0.50 x 4 = 2

If he bought 4 times as many, then take the price times 4.

Answer 2

Answer:

$2.00

Step-by-step explanation:

Stephen bought 1 package for $0.50. His brother bought 4 times as many (4 * 1 packages). Which means his brother bought 4 packages.

If each package costs $0.50 then we simply multiply the price with the amount of packages he bought:

4 * $0.50. Lets get rid of the dollar sign, so it doesn't distract us.

I'm not sure if you studied about floating point numbers yet, but I assume you did.

4 * 0.50 =?

We have two numbers after the floating point, but for the sake of simplicity we can get rid of it too and just multiply 4 * 50 and then put the floating point back into the number after the first two digits (because we removed it after two digits 0.50)

Anyway 4 * 50 = 200

We add the floating point and get:

2.00

Therefore his brother spent $2.00 after we add the dollar sign back in