10. A band Martha likes just released a new

album. A digital music service is selling

the 12-song album for $9.96. The service

also allows purchase of individual songs

off the album, with 3 songs selling for

$1.29 and 9 selling for $0.99. Martha

likes all of the $1.29 songs and 6 of the

$0.99 songs. She is considering buying

just those songs or buying the whole

album. What is the better deal in terms of

price per song? Show your work.

Question

Mathematics

Deacon Rivers

11 February, 09:37

10. A band Martha likes just released a new

album. A digital music service is selling

the 12-song album for $9.96. The service

also allows purchase of individual songs

off the album, with 3 songs selling for

$1.29 and 9 selling for $0.99. Martha

likes all of the $1.29 songs and 6 of the

$0.99 songs. She is considering buying

just those songs or buying the whole

album. What is the better deal in terms of

price per song? Show your work.

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Peyton Durham · Answer 1

Buy individual songs

Step-by-step explanation:

Considering that individual 6 songs each $0.99 will cost Martha a total of 6*$0.99=$5.94 and also individual 3 songs for $1.29 will mean he incurrs a sub-total cost of 3*1.29=$3.87

Total cost of buying 9 individual songs will be C=5.94+3.87=$9.81 which is less than the cost of the whole album. Therefore, it is recommended to buy individual songs instead of album for this case since the total cost of individual songs that the buyer is interested in is less than the total cost of an album