Question13. A music teacher has 4 drum kits. Each kit has 2 drumsticks. Each drumstick costs . How many drumsticks does she have? What is the cost to replace them all?
Studdy Solution
STEP 1
What is this asking? How many drumsticks are there and how much do they cost in total? Watch out! Don't mix up the number of drum kits with the number of drumsticks!
STEP 2
1. Calculate the total number of drumsticks.
2. Calculate the total cost.
STEP 3
Alright, so we've got **4** drum kits, and each kit has **2** drumsticks.
We want to find the *total* number of drumsticks.
STEP 4
To do this, we **multiply** the number of kits by the number of drumsticks per kit: .
So, there are a total of **8** drumsticks!
STEP 5
Each drumstick costs , and we have **8** drumsticks.
STEP 6
To find the total cost, we **multiply** the number of drumsticks by the cost per drumstick: .
STEP 7
The music teacher has **8** drumsticks.
It would cost her to replace all of them.
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