Question

Jon earns $15.50 per week for helping his dad deliver newspapers. He has helped his dad for 3 weeks. Jon uses part of his earnings to buy a new video game that costs $42.39 including tax. How much of his earnings does he have left?

Answer 1

Since Jon has worked for three weeks, we can multiply his weekly earnings by 3, because that’s the amount of weeks he’s earned money.

$15.50 x 3 = $46.50

From there, since Jon bought a video game, we know that he spent his money, meaning we’ll have to subtract the amount he paid for the video game from his total.

$46.50 - $42.39 = $4.11

Therefore, Jon has $4.11 left of his earnings.

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