What item found at a most hardware stores has the following pricing:?

Question

1 costs 50 cents, but 15 cost $1.00 and 100 cost $1.50.
How much would 8000 cost?

Nice point Eulercrosser
I did think of that.
I had originally written it with no esses, as if it was the past tense. I forgot one s. my bad.

Answer 1

House numbers:

You pay 50¢ per digit. Therefore 8000 costs $2.00.

You made a mistake in the statement though. You are not conjugating properly. it should be 15 costS and 100 costS, since they are singular items (as a group), not multiple :)

Like you said, one way to avoid the conjugation issues is to use the past, but you can also use this way:

I bought 1 for 50¢, 15 for $1.00, and 100 for $1.50. How much did I pay for 8000?

Answer 2

nails