Question

A school administrator bought 6 desk sets. Each set consists of one table and one chair. He paid $48.50 for each chair. If he paid a total of $663 for the 6 sets, the cost of each table is _______

A: 54.50
b: 62.00
c: 110.50
d: 159.00

Answer 1

b. $62

Explanation:

First, we need to add up the cost of all the chairs.

48.5 x 6 = 291

All the chairs together cost $291

Now we can take out the cost of the chairs from the total.

663 - 291 = 372

$372 is what's left over for the cost of all the tables together. So we are going to divide by the number of tables to find out how much each table costs.

372 / 6 = 62

Each table costs $62