SOLUTION: If your pencil costs x cents and nine pens cost y cents, what is the cost of one pencil and three pens?
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Question 485799: If your pencil costs x cents and nine pens cost y cents, what is the cost of one pencil and three pens?
Good morning ma'am/ sir, I need a step-by -step solution. Thank you.
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1 pencil x cents
....
9 pens cost y cents
1 pen will cost y/9 cents
....
1 pencil 3 pens will cost
x + y/9 * 3
= x+y/3 cents
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