Oriako said:1/2x + 1 = x
x=2
The book costs $2?
Deicider said:Nope.
Goongyae said:As you stated, the book costs $1.00.
Add half its price and the cost becomes $1.50.
D H said:Not this nonsense, again. You've posted this in another forum, trying to play poorly-worded games with "price" versus "cost".
Ignoring the silly nonsense, with "cost" and "price" being synonyms, the answer is of course $2.
Pay attention to the silly nonsense and the answer is a cumquat (or whatever you want).
Goongyae said:I've finally solved it! The answer is either $0.50 or $0.98.
>What is the Cost of a book that costs 1$ plus half of its price?
We have the profit of buying the book at -$1, plus half the price of the book at $0.50, for a total profit of $-0.50, or a total cost of $0.50.
But what if the statement means "What is the Cost of a book that costs one dollar, plus half of its (the dollar's) price?"
It is impossible to buy a dollar anywhere (you can certainly trade something for a dollar, but it's not called "buying" a dollar). Therefore the only meaningful price atributable to a dollar would be the price paid by the Treasury Department to manufacture it, i.e. $0.04.
Thus we have the profit of buying the book at -$1, plus half the price of the dollar at $0.02, for a total profit of $-0.98, or a total cost of $0.98.
Deicider said:I don't know if this already been posted but here it goes:What is the Cost of a book that costs 1$ plus half of its price?
The total cost of a book that costs 1$ plus half of its price would be 1.50$.
To calculate the total cost, you would first need to find half of the price of the book by dividing it by 2. In this case, half of the price would be 0.50$. Then, you would add the original price of 1$ to the half price, giving you a total of 1.50$.
Yes, the formula for calculating the total cost of a book that costs 1$ plus half of its price would be (1 + 0.5) = 1.50$.
Yes, the cost of a book can be expressed as a mathematical equation (1 + 0.5) = 1.50$ or C = (1 + 0.5) where C represents the total cost.
The cost of a book that costs 1$ plus half of its price is 1.50$ because half of the price is only 0.50$, not 1$. Therefore, adding the original price of 1$ to half of its price would give you a total of 1.50$.