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Eight friends ate at a restaurant and agreed to share the bill equally. Because Judi forgot her money, each of her seven friends paid an extra &#036;2.50 to cover her portion of the total bill. What was the total bill?
Eight friends ate at a restaurant and agreed to share the bill equally. Because Judi forgot her money, each of her seven friends paid an extra &#036;2.50 to cover her portion of the total bill. What was the total bill?


<math>\textbf{(A)}\ &#036;120 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ &#036;128 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ &#036;140 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ &#036;144 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ &#036;160</math>
<math> \textbf{(A)}\ &#036;120\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ &#036;128\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ &#036;140\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ &#036;144\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ &#036;160 </math>


==Solution==
==Solution==

Revision as of 12:08, 27 November 2013

Problem

Eight friends ate at a restaurant and agreed to share the bill equally. Because Judi forgot her money, each of her seven friends paid an extra $2.50 to cover her portion of the total bill. What was the total bill?

$\textbf{(A)}\ &#036;120\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ &#036;128\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ &#036;140\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ &#036;144\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ &#036;160$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)

Solution

Judi's seven friends each paid $2.50 for her, so the total amount of money that was paid for her was $7\cdot &#036;2.50 = &#036;17.50$. This is Judi's portion of the bill; what she was supposed to pay.

Judi was supposed to pay $\frac{1}{8}$ of the total bill, so the total bill must be $8\cdot &#036;17.50 = \boxed{\textbf{(C)}\ &#036;140}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg).

See Also

2013 AMC 8 (ProblemsAnswer KeyResources)
Preceded by
Problem 3
Followed by
Problem 5
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