Question

MX Add, subtract, multiply, and divide money amounts: word problems HON

It costs $0.87 to buy 3 bananas. If the bananas all have the same price, how much does it
cost to buy 1 banana?

Answer 1

The cost of one banana is found by dividing the total cost ($0.87) for three bananas by the number of bananas (3), resulting in $0.29 for one banana.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how much it costs to buy one banana, we need to divide the total cost by the number of bananas. The total cost of 3 bananas is $0.87, and we want to find the cost for 1 banana. This is a simple division problem.

We divide $0.87 by 3:

$0.87 ÷ 3 = $0.29.

Therefore, the cost of 1 banana is $0.29.

This is an example of using division in operations with money.