Question

At a local tech school, there are 6 math classes and each class has 27 students. The school pays for the book and calculators for each student. Each book costs $45.10 and each student calculator costs $57.80. What’s is the total cost the school will pay ?

Answer 1

The first step to solve this problem, you have to compute first for the total number of students:

6 math classes x 27 students per class = 162 students

Now, you know that there are 162 students all in all in the school. The next step is to compute for the total cost of both the book and the calculator per student.

$45.10 (Book) + $57.80 (Calculator) = $102.90 (total cost per student)

To compute for the total cost that the school will pay, you have to multiply the total cost per student to the number of students in school.

$102.90 per student x 162 students = $16,669.80

Therefore, the total cost the school will pay is $16,669.80.