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What’s the correct answer for this question? Any help is appropriated

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Answer:

Explanation:

we want to set the per ... value to one

so for the dollars per pound we find how many dollars per one pound. we can set up a proportion to do so.

(6.79/16) = (x/1) so we can solve that by finding (6.79/16)(1) = x meaning x is 0.424 [3 sig figs] meaning its 0.424 dollars per pound

using the same process we find the other proportion which would be (16/6.79) = (x/1) -> (16/6.79)(1) = x -> 2.36 meaning 2.36 pound per dollar

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