Question

during a sale at the bookstore,books where sold for $3 and magazines where sold for $2.50 Jam spent $16 and bought a total of 6 books and magazines how many did she buy?

Answer 1

The bookstore is on sale and they offer the following prices to the following items:  => books is equals to 3 dollars => magazines  costs 2.50 dollars.Now, Jam were able to spend 16 dollars in total in buying 6 books and x number of magazines. => Let's find out how many did Jam bought. => he bought a total of 6 books and magazine.=> Let's analyze how many magazines and how many books will he need to buy in order to get 16 dollars in total=> 4 magazines * 2.5 dollars = 10 dollars=> 2 books * 3 dollars = 6 dollarsin total 16 dollars.