Question

On your way home from work, you stop at a fruit stand where apples are selling for 88 cents/lb. If you have $6.00 with you, how many pounds of apples can you buy (to the nearest whole pound)?

Answer 1

Answer: 7 lb

Explanation:

You know that in that fruit stand each pound of apple costs 88 cents.

Therefore, if you have $6.00, you need to divide this amount by 88 cents ($0.88 ) in order to calculate the pounds of apples you can buy.

Therefore, the pounds of apples you can buy to the nearest whole number is the following:

`amount\ of\ apples=(6.00)/(0.88)=7\ lb`

Answer 2

7 lbs

Explanation:

Given:

apples per pound= 88 cents

total money= $6.00

=600 cents

Now

1 lb= 88 cents

let x be the pounds of apple in 600 cents then

x lb=600 cents

By cross-multiplication we get:

600=88x

x=600/88

x= 6.81

x=7 pounds

7 pounds of apple can be bought by $6.00 !