Question

Lamar needs to buy some pencils. Brand A has a pack of 18 pencils for 2.36 . Brand B has a pack of pencils 24 for 4.09 Find the unit price for each brand. Then state which brand is the better buy based on the unit price. Round your answers to the nearest cent.

Answer 1

The unit price of brant A and brand B is 0.1311 and 0.1704 and brand A would be better

Explanation:

The computation of the unit price for each brand is shown below:

For brand A, the unit price is

= 2.36 ÷ 18 pencils

= 0.1311

For Brand b, the unit price is

= 4.09 ÷ 24

= 0.1704

So here as we can see that brand A would be better as it has less cost as compared with brand B