Question

Four friends purchase a pineapple for $2.88 and 18.4 pounds of peaches. Thepeaches cost $1.75 per pound. The friends share the total cost equally.What amount does each person pay?

Answer 1

for this case we have a pinapple for $2.88 and 18.4 pounds of peaches each pound cost $1.75

Then the total cost is:

2.88$ + 18.4pounds* 1.75$/pound= 35.08$

Then we can find the unitary cost on this way:

35.08$/4 = 8.77$

then the total cost per person is 8.77$