Question

A store is selling lemons at $.68 each. Each lemon yields about 2 tablespoons of juice. How much will it cost to buy enough lemons to make four lemon pies, each requiring half a cup of lemon juice? There are 16 tablespoons in one cup.

Answer 1

To solve this problem multiply the number of pies by the number of cups required to make one pie, then by the number of tablespoons in one cup, then by the number of tablespoons made by one lemon and then by the unit price of the lemons, this way:

`4pies\cdot((1)/(2)cup)/(1pie)\cdot(16tbspns)/(1cup)\cdot(1lemon)/(2tbspns)\cdot(0.68)/(1lemon)=10.88`

The answer is $10.88