Question

A person paid a total of $38.50, before tax, for flowers and dirt at a

store. The price of the flowers was $4.50 per container. The price of the
dirt was $7.00 per bag.
If the customer bought one bag of dirt, how many containers of flowers
did the customer buy?

It’s number 6

Answer 1

Answer: 7 containers of flowers (Option B)

Explanation:

Hi there! Let's pull out the information we know.

[] They paid $38.50

[] Flowers cost $4.50 per container

[] Dirt costs $7.00 per bag

[] They bought one bag of dirt

Since we know they bought one bag of dirt, we will subtract 7 from 38.5. In other words, the cost of dirt is subtracted from the total amount of money spent.

38.5 - 7 = 31.5

What does this number mean? It means they spent $31.50 on containers of flowers.

Since we know that flowers are $4.50 per container, we can divide $31.50 by $4.50 to find how many containers of flowers were bought.

31.50 / 4.50 = 7

They bought 7 containers of flowers.