The answer is $1.50
Read below for the explainaton :)
So 12 pounds is to $6 // 12 pounds : $6
To find the cost of apples for 3 pounds, set up the ratio the same way as the given ratio.
3 pounds : $x
To find x, the cost, compare the two ratios.
12 pounds : $6
3 pounds : $x
Now how did we get from 12 pounds to 3 pounds?
- by dividing by 4
So what you do to one side you must do to the other. Which means divide $6 by 4 to find the answer.
By doing so you get $1.50
And there you go the cost of 3 pounds of apples is $1.50
Hope that helped:)