Question

4. At the grocery store, almonds are on sale for

$2.88 per pound. What is the price of 3.5 pounds?

Answer 1

First, set up your proportion. $2.88 goes to 1 lb, while x amount of money goes to 3.5 lbs.

Second, cross-multiply. When you cross-multiply, you multiply the top term of the left side by the bottom term of the right side, then vice versa. Multiply 2.88 with 3.5, then multiply 1 by x.

Now, we have 10.08 = x. We don't need to do any simplifying here because x is already by itself.

Final answer: 3.5 lbs of almonds cost $10.08

Answer 2

$10.08

Explanation:

Multiply the price of almonds per pound by the number of pounds

price per pound * pounds

2.88*3.5=10.08

So, the price for 3.5 pounds of almonds is $10.08

Hope that this helped!