Question

Alicia bought a notebook and several erasers at the student store. The graph shows the relationship between the total cost of her items and the number of erasers she purchased.

What is the cost of each eraser?

a
$1.00
b
$2.00
c
$1.50
d
$3.50

Answer 1

(B) $1.50

Explanation:

Answer 2

Option: C is the correct answer.

$ 1.50 is the cost of 1 eraser.

Explanation:

Alicia bought a notebook and several erasers at the student store.

Let the cost of 1 eraser=$ x.

Now from the scatter plot we could see that when Alicia did not bought any eraser then her total cost =$ 2.

That means cost of a notebook=$ 2.

Now when she buys a notebook and two eraser then she pays=$ 5.

i.e.

Total cost=cost of notebook+ 2× cost of 1 eraser

Total cost=cost of notebook+2×x

i.e.

5=2+2x

⇒ 2x=5-2

⇒ 2x=3

⇒ x=1.5

Hence, cost of one eraser is:

$ 1.50