Question

A store buys 77 1/2 pounds of mulch. They divide the mulch up into bags that can each hold 2 1/4 pounds of mulch. The store sells each bag for 2.25$. How many full Baganda of mulch with the store make? Considering only full bags, what is the total sales prices of all the bags of mulch?

Answer 1

Hey, Let's get started.

To find how many bags the store has made, we will divide

77.5 / 2.25

( those are the decimal versions of the first 2 numbers given )

That equals 34.44

They only want to count whole bags, so the number of whole bags of mulch is 34.

the .44 represents an unfull bag of mulch. We will ignore that.

Now it asks for the cost of the 34 bags of mulch

To find, we multiply 34 and $2.25

Our final price is $76.50