Question

Couch johnson needs to buy shirts for his soccer players. He finds a package of 2:shirts for 16.00. How much will it cost to buy 18 shirts?

Answer 1

144

Explanation:

We can write this as 2 shirts = 16.00 . Then, we can write this as a ratio, where

2 shirts / 16.00 = 18 shirts/ cost of 18 shirts as the cost for a pair of shirts remains the same, so the ratio will as well.

Therefore, writing the cost of 18 shirts as c, we have

2 shirts/16.00 = 18 shirts/c

multiply both sides by c to remove a denominator

2 shirts * c/16.00 = 18 shirts

multiply both sides by 16 to remove the other denominator

2 shirts * c = 18 shirts * 16

divide both sides by 2 shirts to isolate the c, as we want to figure that out

c = 18 shirts * 16/2 shirts

c=144