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Maggie bought 3/4 of a pound of bananas and 4 boxes of cereal for $10.11. If each box of cereal cost $2.40, what was the price of a pound of bananas?

Maggie bought 3/4 of a pound of bananas and 4 boxes of cereal for $10.11. If each box of cereal cost $2.40, what was the price of a pound of bananas?
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Maggie bought 3/4 of a pound of bananas and 4 boxes of cereal for $10.11. If each box of cereal cost $2.40, what was the price of a pound of bananas?

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Answer:

$0.51

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Maggie bought 3/4 of a pound of bananas and 4 boxes of cereal for $10.11. If each-example-1
User BomberBus
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So what I did was first multiply the boxes of the cereals with the price of them.

I did $2.40 x 4 and I got 9.60.

Then I subtracted $10.11 - 9.60 and I got 0.51.

So the answer is 0.51.

I'm so sorry if I got the answer wrong :(

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