Question

It costs $12 to attend a golf clinic with a local pro. Buckets of balls for practice during the clinic cost $3 each. How many buckets can you buy at the clinic if you have $30 to spend?

Answer 1

6

Explanation:

First, you have to pay the entrance fee of $12. Therefore, you subtrace it from the $30.

`30-12=18$`

Which leaves us 18$ to spend on buckets of balls. To determinate how many buckets we can buy we divide the $18 by the price of $3.

`(cancel($)18)/(cancel($)3)=6`

Answer 2

You can buy `6` buckets of golf balls.

Explanation:

You can solve this by logic

You have a total of `$30,` but you can't spend it all on buckets of balls because first you have to pay the fee to attend the golf clinic.

So you have to figure out how much you have left after you spend `$12` on fees.

`$30-$12= $18`
This means that you can spend `$18` on buckets of golf balls.

At `$3` each, how many buckets can you buy wtih `$18?`

`18 -:3 = 6`
This means that you can buy `6` buckets of golf balls at the clinic after paying the fee to join.

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`6` buckets @ `$3` ea . . . .`$18`
Clinic fee . . . . . . . . . . . ..`$12`
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