The bookstore marked some notepads down from?$ 3.00 but still kept the price over?$ 2.00. It sold all of them. The total amount of money from the sale of the pads was?$ 27.95. How many notepads were? sold? What was the price of each? notepad?

The answer is 13. To figure this out I used 10 notebooks sold as a guide. I knew the answer could not be 10, because $27.95/10 was not a number stopping in the hundredths place (or a true money amount).

I tried numbers greater than 10 using a trial and error strategy until I got to 13 notebooks sold and found that it $27.95 was divisible by 13 to get an answer between $2 and $3 ($2.15 exactly).