Question

Your friend bought 3 bags of wild bird seed and an $18 bird feeder. Each bag of birdseed costs the same amount. If your friend spent $45, find the cost of one bag of birdseed.

Answer 1

Well what I did was first I subtracted 18 ( for the feeder) from 45 (the total amount spent) this gave me 27. Then I divided 3 (amount of bags bought) into 27 (the remainder of the money) this gave me 9 so each bag of bird seed cost $9.

$18 Birdfeeder
$27 for three bags of bird seed
Total- $45