Yuri purchased 8 trees to have planted at his house. the store charged a delivery fee of $5 per tree.

the total cost of the trees including the delivery was $168.

how much did each tree cost?

$16.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let t represent the cost of each tree.

We have been given that Yuri purchased 8 trees to have planted at his house. So the cost of 8 trees will be 8t.

We are also told that the store charged a delivery fee of $5 per tree. So the delivery charges of 8 trees will be

The total cost of purchasing 8 trees will be .  

Since the total cost of the trees including the delivery was $168, so we can get an equation as:

Upon dividing both sides of our given equation by 8, we will get:

Therefore, the cost of each tree is $16.

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