SOLUTION: A group of people were planning to contribute equal amounts of money to buy some pizza. After the pizza was ordered, one person left. Each of the other nine people had to pay 60 ex

Question 1094160: A group of people were planning to contribute equal amounts of money to buy some pizza. After the pizza was ordered, one person left. Each of the other nine people had to pay 60 extra cents as a result. How much was the total bill?
Answer by greenestamps(13203) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

If there were nine people still there after the one person left, then there were 10 people to start. If the amount each one of them was going to pay is x, then the amount they now each have to pay is (in dollars) x+.60. The total bill didn't change; so

That should be an easy equation to solve.

Note that you need to remember that the solution to the equation is the amount each person would have paid if there had still been 10 people there. That's not the answer to the problem; the answer is the amount of the total bill.
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