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?() $8.77) $9.31) $21.34$35.09

Answer 1

Given:-

Cost of pineapple is $2.88

Cost of one pound of peaches is $1.75

Total pound of peaches is 18.4

To find:-

The total cost and the cost each person pay.

The cost of one pound of peaches is $1.75 and totally there are 18.4 pounds. so to find the total cost of peaches, Multiply the value of cost of one pound of peaches with the total pound of peaches.

So the total cost of peaches is,

`18.4*1.75`

So by simplifying. we get the value of total cost of peaches,

`18.4*1.75=32.2`

So the total cost of 18.4 pounds peaches is $32.2

Now we need to find the total cost, for that we need to add the total cost of Peaches and the cost of pineapple.

So the total cost is,

`32.2+2.88=35.08`

So the total cost of purchase is $35.08

Now to find the amount that each person pay. For that we need to divide the total cost by the total number of persons.

The total cost is $35.08 and the total number of person is 4 ( since four friends ).

So the amount each person pay is,

`(35.08)/(4)=8.77`

So the amount each person will pay is $8.77

So the correct answer is Option A.