Purchase price math problem

Question

The cost of 3 tubes of cream is $8.00+×

and the of S&H is $8.00. So total is

$15.16 including tax so what would it average out to be per tube

Answer 1

Hi Cathleen!

Your question is a little unclear, is the total cost of the 3 tubes of cream $15.16 including a shipping and handling cost of $8? If this is the case, in order to just get the cost of the tubes of cream, we will need to subtract the cost of S&H from the total first:

$15.16 - $8 = $7.16

Now we have the cost of only the tubes of cream including tax, so if we want to get the average cost of an individual tube, we need to divide our total by the number of tubes we have:

$7.16 ÷ 3 = $2.39 (we round to the nearest cent)

So the average cost of each tube would be $2.39.

Hope that helps! If you want more clarification let me know.