GEC 14 Act 03 BSN
GEC 14 Act 03 BSN
GEC 14 Act 03 BSN
BICOL UNIVERSITY
LEGAZPI CITY
The Problem
A limited-edition BU ID lanyard is on sale priced at Php97.00 only for today. Unfortunately, your
cash is just enough to get you through the day. Your two generous friends offered to lend you
Php50.00 bill each so all of you will have that limited edition lanyard.
Now, you have enough money to buy the lanyard. You then bought it and were given a change of
Php3.00.
As you still have Php3.00, you decided to return Php1.00 each to your friends, which leaves you
with a Php49.00 debt to each of them.
Since your remaining balance to each friend is Php49.00 and you have a remaining Php1.00 at
hand, that is:
Php 98.00+ Php 1.00 $=Php 99.00 (add the $Php1.00$ is available at hand)
The total amount, as shown in the computation above is Php99.00. But you originally have
Php100.00, where is the other Php1.00?
Solution:
2(50)=100
100 – 97=3
Amount payable to friends: 98+1=99
Putting as an example:
Friend 1 Friend 2
Before purchasing: 100 = 50 +¿ 50
Purchased the item: 97 +¿ 3 (change)
Distributed the 1 peso each to friends: 97 +¿ 1 (The remaining 1-peso money from the 3-peso
change)
100 = 97 +¿ 1 +¿ (1 +¿
1)
Before:
You have the hundred pesos on hand.
After:
97 (ID) +¿ 1 (change from 3 pesos) = 98 (money you have)
2 (money your friends have)
100
How was your answer as compared with your classmates’ answers? How do their answers affect
yours? Will you change your answer? What is your final answer now?
What did you learn about your classmates from this activity?
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