SOLUTION: A printer charged 10 pesos for printing the first hundred programs for a school convocation, and 6.60 pesos a hundred for each additional hundred. If the bill amounted 36.40 pesos,
Algebra.Com
Question 888142: A printer charged 10 pesos for printing the first hundred programs for a school convocation, and 6.60 pesos a hundred for each additional hundred. If the bill amounted 36.40 pesos, how many programs were printed?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = Cost total number of programs printed
Let = number of programs printed after the
first
-----------------
The equation is:
You are given:
-------------------
To this, you have to add the first programs
that cost pesos
Rounding this off, 636 programs were printed
( You don't print part of a program )
---------------------
Check answer:
OK
RELATED QUESTIONS
Billy bought a doughnut for x pesos and coffee for y pesos. The total amount he spent is... (answered by math_helper)
The profits of a corner store for 6 days are 2,000 pesos, 3,000 pesos, 1,200 pesos, 6,000 (answered by Boreal)
The daily sales of ABC Enterprises for the first seven days of a certain month are the... (answered by stanbon)
A restaurant offered an eat-all-you-can menu last November. They charged 250 pesos for... (answered by ikleyn)
admission tickets to a theater were 60 pesos for adults and 25 pesos for children. the... (answered by josgarithmetic)
How many kilos of santol at 12 pesos per kilo, and how many kilos of santol at 8 pesos... (answered by Edwin McCravy)
to start a small business mr. tan borrowed a total of 50000 pesos from 2 banks the first... (answered by greenestamps)
If there were 600 people at a play, the total receipts were 9,800 pesos, and the... (answered by mananth)
a man is paid 150 pesos for each day, he works and forfeits 50 pesos for each day he is... (answered by Theo)