Question

Each grocery store advertises a sale on platters of fresh fruit. Each platter costs $15.79. What is the cost of 5 platters of fresh fruit?

1) $15.79
2) $78.95
3) $79.95
4) $87.95

Answer 1

The cost of 5 fruit platters at $15.79 each is $78.95. This is a multiplication problem where the unit price is multiplied by the quantity.

The cost of 5 platters of fresh fruit, each costing $15.79, can be found by multiplying the cost of one platter by the number of platters:

$15.79 × 5 = $78.95.

Therefore, the correct answer is 2) $78.95. This type of problem is a straightforward multiplication of unit price by quantity to find the total cost. Similar arithmetic was used in finding the costs of different fruits in the given historical examples, like the cost of apples, bananas, grapes, and raspberries. However, in this specific scenario, we use the mentioned price for platters instead of individual fruit prices.