Question

Tess owns a fudge shop in town. She made 3 pounds of fudge and cut it up into 12 equal-sized squares. Tess sells fudge for $2 per pound. A customer bought 5 squares of fudge. How much money did the customer spend?

Answer 1

the customer spent $13 if it's not 13 it's the closest answer too 13

Answer 2

$0.85, or 85 cents.

Explanation:

To find this, we first need to find out how much it costs for one square. We know it is $2 per pound, and there are twelve squares in each pound. So to find out how much one square costs, we need to divide $2 by 12. We get an answer that is never-ending when we solve this, so we will round to the hundredths place since we are working with money. What we get as a result is that one square costs $0.17.

Now we multiply the above number by five to find out how much the customer spent. This comes out to be $0.85. In total, the customer spent 85 cents for all five squares of the fudge.