When sharon began shopping this morning, she had $40.00. she purchased five paperback books and had lunch. the books were all the same price, and lunch cost $3.25. she now has $7.00 left over. what was the price of each of the books

$5.95. $40 - ($7.00 + $3.25) = 29.75 | Since you have 5 paperback books that all cost the same, you divide 29.75 by 5 and get the answer of $5.95 for each.

Frist you have $40.00. Then you subtract $3.25 and you get $36.75. Then you subtract $7.00 and you get $29.75. Then you divide that by 5 and get $5.95. So the answer is $5.95 ;)

1. isolate the variable, in this case, d. subtract 35.5 on both sides of the equation.2. 52 subtracted by 35.5 is 16.53. therefore your answer would be d= 16.5this is the basics of pre algebra, isolating variable through adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, if you have any other questions to ask just comment!