You buy 25 worms for 4 dollars and you have a budget of 20 dollars what is the cost per worm

Answer 1

You buy 25 worms for 4 dollars and you have a budget of 20 dollars what is the cost per worm

hello vonda ,

$4 = 400 cents

the cost of 25 worms = 400 / 25 = 16 cents or $0.16 .

since you have $20 or 2,000 cents , you can buy 2000/ 16 = 125 worms

hope it helps.

Answer 2

Hello Vonda,

Each worm costs $0.16.

When you multiply $0.16 (the cost of each individual worm) x 5, you get 0.80 per group of every 5 worms.

When you multiply 0.80 x 5 (the number of groups with 5 worms in them each; 5x5 = 25 worms total), you get $4--which is the total amount of money you spent on all 25 of the worms according to the word problem outlined above.

I hope this helps! :)