Prakrit bought a pack of paper for $5.69 and printer toner for $9.76. He paid with a $20 bill. What was his change?
2 Answers
The change that Prakrit received was
Explanation:
Prakrit bought a pack of paper for $5.69 and printer toner for $9.76. He paid with a $20 bill.
Okay, so the problem tells us that Prakrit bought:
Paper:
Printer Toner :
First, let's add these two together:
So we know that Prakit would have to pay a total of
So let's subtract
So the change that Prakrit got back was
Hope this helps!
I do not know your level of understanding so I am going for the whole thing! If the problem is difficulty in converting the words into numeric presentation then please accept my apologies.
Change
Explanation:
Paper
Toner
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Offered cash
Cost
Note that 20 is the same 1 ten + 10 units so you can write 20 as
Offered cash
Cost
But this still gives a problem as we have 00 above 45
Ok lets move 1 unit into the tenths column. So
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Offered cash
Cost
But we still have a problem with
So lets do the same thing again giving:
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Offered cash
Cost
The answer is: