You bought a magazine for $5 and four erasers. You spent a total of $25. How much did each erasers cost?

Question

What is the answer to this question? I'm confused when it comes to word problems.

Answer 1

If you know the total was 25, and that the magazine was 5, you know the 4 erasers together were 20.

 

Assuming that the erasers were priced easily, you can divide 20 dollars by 4 erasers.

 

20 divided by 4 is 5, so each eraser was 5 bucks.