Acustomer went to a garden shop and bought some potting soil for $17.50 and 4 shrubs. the total bill was $53.50. write and solve an equation to find the price of each shrub.

$9

Step-by-step explanation:

Let  be the price of each shrub.

Hence, total cost is the expression  

We know that total bill is $53.50, so we can equate it to the expression:

This equation can be solved for    to find cost of each shrub.

Solving for    gives us:

So price of each shrub is $9

$9.89

step-by-step explanation:

9.90 = p x .06 x .25 (3/12 changed to a decimal)

9.90 = p x 0.015

9.90 - 0.015 = p

9.89 = p