Question

2) Marisol paid $3.00 for 2/5 pound of sliced turkey meat. Whatwas the price per pound of the turkey meat?

Answer 1

1) Gathering the data

$3.00 ------ 2/5 pound

x ---------- 1

2) We can solve this problem, using a proportion since we want to find the unit rate for the sliced turkey meat

$3.00 ------ 2/5 pound

x ---------- 1

This is the same as:

`\begin{gathered} (3)/(x)=((2)/(5))/(1) \\ (2)/(5)x=3 \end{gathered}`

Therefore we can cross multiply it.

2/5x = 3 Multiply both sides by 5 to eliminate the fraction

2x=15 Divide both sides by 2

x=15/2 or $7.5 per pound