Question

The unit rate for peaches is $2.00 per pound. The unit rate for grapes is $2.50 perpound. If you had $10 to spend, would you be able to buy a greater weight ofpeaches or of grapes? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

According to the problem, the total amount of money we have is $10.

Additionally, we know that the cost of peaches is $2 per pound, and the cost for grapes is $2.50 per pound.

Notice that the cost for grapes is greater than the cost for peaches, that means we'll by fewer pounds of grapes with $10 than for peaches.

For example, if we buy peaches, it would be

`(10)/(2)=5`

This means we would be able to buy 5 pounds of peaches.

But, for grapes

`(10)/(2.50)=4`

Which means we can by only 4 pounds of grapes.

Therefore, we would be able to buy a greater amount of peaches than grapes.