SOLUTION: Samantha smith went into a store and spent half her money and then spent $20 more. Samantha then went into a second store and spent half her remaining money and then spent $20 more
Algebra.Com
Question 640593: Samantha smith went into a store and spent half her money and then spent $20 more. Samantha then went into a second store and spent half her remaining money and then spent $20 more. After spending money in the second store, Samantha had no money left. How much money did she have when she went into the first store?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since she didn't have anything left after the last $20, and just before she spent that last $20 she spent half of what she had, that last $20 must have also been half of what she had when she walked into the second store. So, when she entered the second store she had $40. Then just before she spent the extra $20 at the first store she had $60, which was half of what she had at the start. $120.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
RELATED QUESTIONS
Miss match went to a store spent half of her money and then $10 more she went to a... (answered by jorel555)
Thomas went to the store and spent half of his money and then $8 more. He went to a... (answered by josgarithmetic)
Thomas went to the store and spent half of his money and then $8 more. He went to a... (answered by LynnMomo,ikleyn,MathTherapy)
Kenna, Lexy and Lupe went to a popular clothing store and spent a total of $500.00 Lupe... (answered by josmiceli)
1. I am thinking of a number.If you add 10 to it and divide the sum by 5, you get 7. What (answered by ReadingBoosters)
Beth, Kinsley, and Kori went shopping. Beth spent half of her money on a new pair of... (answered by mananth)
hali went shopping and spent half of her money on an ipod. THEN SHE SPENT A QUARTER OF... (answered by stanbon!)
Auggie spent all of his money in 5 stores. In each store, he spent $1 more than one-half... (answered by solver91311)
Jenness ran into the store three times to buy the same items. Each time she went into... (answered by ikleyn)
