Question

An office purchases 1,300 pens at a cost of 24.3 cents each. What is the cost of the purchase in dollars?

Answer 1

An office purchases 1,300 pens at a cost of 24.3 cents each. What is the cost of the purchase in dollars?

Answer 2

100 cents = 1 dollar.

Find out how many cents he spent, then divide that by 100. That's your answer. :)