How Much For Each Item

[lankeela]

200 items cost a total of £164.71- how much does each one cost?

[lankeela]

Calculator says 0.82355 - so is that 82p and a bit or 8p and a bit?

[Buenchico]

About 82½p. (82.355p if you're being precise).

[lankeela]

Thanks - as you know my mind just goes blank with figures. So what is the 0. bit about at the beginning? Why doesn't is just say 82.355? Actually, I don't need to know!

[ToraToraTora]

14.21, the way you did it was in pounds so you got the proportion of a pound 0.82355.

[lankeela]

See this is where it loses me - isn't 82p a proportion of a pound?

[ToraToraTora]

82p is 82 whole pence and 0.82 of a pound ie 82% of a pound.

[lankeela]

But its still just 82p. So why need the 0? If it was anything else it would be 1.82 or 10.82 - oh why do I bother its just getting me angry and cross and feeling stupid and upset when I can't be arsed to care about it.

[gingejbee]

200 items cost nearly 200 pounds...so they can't possiblybe 8 pence each. (using common sense rather than maths!)

[ToraToraTora]

Lanks, no need to get upset, clearly it's something that you struggle with but you seem to want to know because you ask but until the penny drops you're not grasping it. You are correct 82p is a proportion of a pound as we say it in English. The relevant factor is 82p the "p" meaning 82 pence now each pence is 100th of a pound so if we have 82 of them we have 82 hundredths of a pound so that is written £0.82. it's still = to 82p but expressed as pounds it's 0.82.

[lankeela]

Fingers in ears - blah blah blah la la la la - that's what it sounds like to me.

[lankeela]

I only want to know the answer - over fifty years after leaving school I am very unlikely to want to start learning even if it made any sense to me which it doesn't.

[ToraToraTora]

You can take a horse to water....... just trying to help.

[ToraToraTora]

"I only want to know the answer" - so why the follow up questions?

[SparklyKid]

Avatar Image lankeelaQuestion AuthorFingers in ears - blah blah blah la la la la - that's what it sounds like to me.15:15 Mon 17th Jul 2023

How rude.

[ToraToraTora]

yes I did wonder why my attempts at help seemed to induce such rudeness.

[MargoTester]

^ It was ever thus :-)
I too have number blindness, always have, as soon as a maths question arises I close down. I found it helpful and patiently explained - so thanks x

[Barsel]

This is a simple maths question which has been made complicated and I understand where Lankeela is coming from but, I would think most people have a calculator and if not, you can get them online.
https://www.online-calculator.com/
Simple division made complicated by over-explaining.
Chris gave the answer but Lankeela was a bit confused with the 0 before the decimal point which just means 0 pounds.
Also, adding 355 after the 82 as that makes it precise.
The correct answer as Chris has said is eighty two and a half pence.

[Barsel]

TTT// The relevant factor is 82p the "p" meaning 82 pence now each pence is 100th of a pound so if we have 82 of them we have 82 hundredths of a pound so that is written £0.82. it's still = to 82p but expressed as pounds it's 0.82.//
That doesn't help anyone who doesn't understand maths.

[bobbinwales]

ok if you want the answer in pence you can just start with the total cost as being in pence, thats 16471 p, then divide by 1200 as you done already and that gives you the answer you feel comfortable with that's 82.355p. or around 82p to nearest penny
Or just forget all the noise, just say if total cost was a bit more at £200 that would mean a£1 each, so real answer is a bit less than £1 each. Does the exact answer matter.

I know you;ll probably say you dont want to know but you did ask how we get from £0.82 to 82p.

[bobbinwales]

^divide by 200 not 1200- simple fatfinger typo