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,
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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
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The equation is:
You are given:
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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 )
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