Question

Carlos bought 6.5 pounds of bananas for $5.20. What is the price per pound of the bananas that Carlos bought?

What quantity of bananas would one dollar buy?

Answer 1

Quantity of banana purchase in $1 = 0.8 pound

Explanation:

Given:

Cost of 6.5 pound of banana = $5.2

Find:

Price of one pound banana

Quantity of banana purchase in $1

Computation:

Price of one pound banana = 6.5 / 5.2

Price of one pound banana = $1.25

Cost of one pound banana is $1.25

Quantity of banana purchase in $1 = 1 pound / 1.25 dollar

Quantity of banana purchase in $1 = 0.8 pound