A customer went to a garden shop and bought some potting soil for $17.50 and 4 shrubs. The total bill was $53.50. Write and solve an equation to find the price of each shrub.

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evoker · Answer

call x the price of a shrub,  how would you find the total bill?

mathmale · Answer

I think you meant, "A customer went to a garden shop and bought some potting soil and 4 shrubs for $17.50.  Let x represent the price of a shrub.  Choose another variable (such as y) to represent the price of the (bag of) potting soil.  Keep in mind that the total paid was $53.50.  

How would you write an equation for the total paid for the potting soil and shrubs?  Set this equation = to $53.50.

Write it out.

That represents the total bill.