Question

At a pastry store they sell chocolate dipped strawberries.the pastry store owners shop at their local market for the strawberries which are sold for $2.78 per pound.to prepare some chocolate dipped strawberries they bought $265 worth of strawberries how many pounds of strawberries did they buy?

Answer 1

Answer: 5.43

Step-by-step explanation:

So you are trying to find out how many pounds of strawberries they bought. First, you have to change the number 265 into a decimal, which would be 2.65, so then you would ave to add 2.78 + 2.65, and adding them up will give you 5.43.

So, your answer would be:

They bought 5.43 pounds of strawberries.