The price of Philip's favorite candy has been reduced by $0.15 per piece. Philip buys 14 pieces and spends $3.22. What is the regular price of each piece of candy?

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Mohammad Mustaqeem · Answer 1 · 2018-12-26T19:56:06+0000

For this case, the first thing we should do is define a variable.

We have then:

The equation modeling the problem is given by:

14 (x-0.15) = 3.22

From here, we clear the value of x.

We have then:

$x-0.15 = \frac {3.22} {14}\\x-0.15 = 0.23\\x = 0.23 0.15\\x = 0.38\$$

Answer:

The regular price of each piece of candy is:

$x = 0.38\$$