Question

Susie is visiting South Africa from the U.S. One day she stopped by a market and found a stall selling tomatoes for 22.78 rand per kilogram. If 1 rand was worth 0.074 dollars that day, how much did the tomato’s cost in dollars per pound. First fill in the two blanks on the left side of the equation using two of the ratios. THEN WRITE THE ANSWER ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST HUNDREDTH ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE EQUATION

Answer 1

Given:

There are given that the price of the tomatoes for 22.78

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the question:

If 1 rand was worth 0.074 dollars that day.

Now,

From the equation:

`(22.78rand)/(1kg)*(0.074dollars)/(1rand)*(1kg)/(2.2lb)`

Then,

`(22.78rand)/(1kg)*(0.074dollars)/(1rand)*(1kg)/(2.2lb)=(22.78*0.074dollars)/(2.2)`

Then,

`\begin{gathered} (22.78*0.074dollars)/(2.2)=(1.68572)/(2.2) \\ =0.766(dollars)/(lb) \\ =0.77 \end{gathered}`

Final answer:

Hence, the answer is shown in below:

`0.77(dollars)/(lb)`