Question

Grocery store A is selling bananas for $9.75 for 1/2 pound .Grocery store B is selling 5 pounds of Bananas for $3.75 which store us offering the best unit rate

Answer 1

Grocery Store B ($1.33 per pound of bananas)

1) With these data we can write the following, and ,

Grocery Store A:

$ pounds

9.75 1/2

x--------------- 1

1/2x=9.75 x 2

x =19.5

Cross multiplying it:

Grocery Store B

$ pounds

5 3.75

y 1

3.75y=5

y=5/3.75

y=1.33

2) The best unit rate is at Grocery Store B ($1.33 per pound of bananas)