Question

at a deli counter - Person A bought 1 and 3 over 4 pounds of ham for $14.50.Person B bought 2 and 1 over 2 pounds of turkey for $26.25.Person C bought 3 over 8 pounds of beef for $5.50 which meat is the least expensive per pound? Which meat is the most expensive per pound. explain how you know.

Answer 1

To find the price per pound, we have to divide each total by the quantity that each person bought.

For person A we have:

`(14.5)/(1(3)/(4))=(14.5)/(1.75)=8.29`

For Person B:

`(26.25)/(2(1)/(2))=(26.25)/(2.5)=10.5`

For person C:

`(5.5)/((3)/(8))=(5.5)/(0.375)=14.67`

therefore, the least expensive meat is the ham and the most expensive meat is the beef.