Question

If tomatoes are $3.22 per pound and Nico spends $5.76 on tomatoes, how many pounds did he purchase?

Answer 1

In order to find out the amount of pounds of tomatoes purchased:

• We have to know how much one pound is ($3.22 per pound)

• Total Nico spent ÷ Price per pound

So it would be

• 5.76 ÷ 3.22 = 1.78881987578

Rounding our decimal number:

• If we round to our nearest tenths it would now be 1.8

Answer:

Therefore, the total number of pounds Nico purchased for $5.76 is 1.8lb.