Question

Totsakan spent $14 on a magazine and some notepads. If the magazine cost $5 and each notepad cost $3, then how many notepads did he buy?

Please give steps.

Answer 1

3 notepads

Explanation:

Since we know that only 1 magazine was bought, we can say that he spent a total of 5$ * 1 Magazine to see he spent $5 on magazines.

Then, we subtract that from the total spent to get:

$14 - $5 = $9

Now, we divide the $9 by the $3 cost of notepads to figure out how many were bought.

9/3 = 3

So three notepads were bought