SOLUTION: The price of a cucumbers has changed from 89 cents to $1.29 cents in the past 5 years and the price of plastic bags has changed from 8 cents to 5 cents. Find the index numbers that

Question 1023761: The price of a cucumbers has changed from 89 cents to $1.29 cents in the past 5 years and the price of plastic bags has changed from 8 cents to 5 cents. Find the index numbers that would represent the change in the respective prices over these 5 years and interpret their meaning
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20081) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1:8::4:_?

[Note that the word "fraction"
contains the word "ratio"]

 

Change the ratios to fractions, 
and the :: to an equal sign:



Cross-multiply:





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6:2::8:_?











Edwin

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