Question

SAT question
Giselle buys 3 dollars worth of each of two different kinds of pencils, priced at 4 and 6 cents per pencil, respectively. The average price in cents paid for a pencil is
A. 4.5
B. 4.8
C. 5
D. 5.1
E. 5.2

Answer 1

any ideas

Answer 2

She spends a total of $6 and buys 300/4 + 300/6 pencils

Answer 3

How many total pencils does she buy firstly tell me..

Answer 4

she buys 125?

Answer 5

And now how much she spent on these total pencils?

Answer 6

$6 right?

Answer 7

I think we are going wrong..

Answer 8

Divide $3.00 by .04 to get 75 pencils and divide $3.00 by .06 to get 50 pencils. So she bought a total of 125 pencils and paid $6.00. Just divide to get the average price per pencil.

Answer 9

how would u do that?

Answer 10

Answer is not coming right..
I am also going through the same method..

Answer 11

Divide 600 cents ($6.00) by 125 (the number of pencils.

Answer 12

4.8

Answer 13

Bingo!

Answer 14

ok i understand thanks