Question

A grocery store sells a bag of 5 oranges for $1.70. What is the cost of oranges, indollarsper orange?

Answer 1

we can use cross multiplication

`\begin{gathered} 5\text{oranges}\longrightarrow1.7 \\ 1\text{orange}\longrightarrow x \end{gathered}`

where x is the value of one orange

`\begin{gathered} x=(1*1.7)/(5) \\ \\ x=0.34 \end{gathered}`

the value of each orange is $0.34