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If for 4lb of potatoes is $3. How much is 1lb of potatoes?

User Mlovic
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It would be 0.75 dollars. Hope it helps! :)
User Firdavs Kurbonov
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$0.75. I turned it into fractions: pounds/money. So 4lbs/$3 = 1lb/x So we do cross multiplication. 1*3 is 3. 4*x is 4x. So now we do inverse. Divide by 4 on both. and we get x=.75. I hope you understand that
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