[American Infidel]

The answer is correct. The ball costs .05 and the bat costs $1.00 more which is $1.05. The Combined total of both items is $1.10.

[Fiji Hill]

The answer is correct. The ball costs .05 and the bat costs $1.00 more which is $1.05. The Combined total of both items is $1.10.

Five-plus decades ago, my father, a math teacher, liked to pose almost exactly the same question. Only in his case, it was a bottle and a cork, with the the cork costing a nickel, and the bottle costing a dollar more.