Question

Mrs. Ashton buys journals for the students in her language arts class. She pays $64.48 for all of the journals. If there are 26 students in her class, how much does each journal cost?

Answer 1

Each journal costs $2.48

Explanation:

Let X be the cost of a single journal.

You can write this equation to represent the problem:

26x = 64.48

(26 times the cost of the journal is $64.48)

Then just solve for x by dividing both sides by 26:

`26x=64.48\\(26x)/(26) =(64.48)/(26)\\x=2.48`

Each journal costs $2.48