Bat & ball

[Monello]

A bat & a ball costs $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

Spoiler: Answer

5 cents

 

[RoseRed]

Is this Greek?

 

[Monello]

Is this Greek?

Nyet.

 

[Ken King]

Is this Greek?

5% sales tax

 

[GopherM]

5% sales tax

6% now in MD. 7% here in the Deep South and we pay it on groceries too. Still cheaper than MD.

 

[Ken King]

Well I read the example wrong anyway. It was X+($1+X)=$1.10, so 2X = $0.10 thus X = $0.05

 

[jrt_ms1995]

A bat & a ball costs $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

Spoiler: Answer

5 cents

Those must be 1950's prices. I remember two brothers and I worked half a day unstringing a barn of tobacco (real, flue-cured tobacco, not this Yankee burley they grow in Maryland) for $3 each, which we pooled to buy a bat and ball. Before that we used a length of 1x6 and a superball we'd found somewhere. Must have been about 1969.