SOLUTION: You need to buy some chicken for dinner tonight. You found an ad showing that the store across town has it on sale for $3.19 a pound, which is cheaper than your usual neighborhood
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Question 1147117: You need to buy some chicken for dinner tonight. You found an ad showing that the store across town has it on sale for $3.19 a pound, which is cheaper than your usual neighborhood store, which sells it for $3.29 a pound. Is it worth the extra drive?
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How much chicken will you be buying? 7 pounds
How much far are the two stores? My neighborhood store is 2.4 miles away, and takes about 7 minutes. The store across town is 8.6 miles away, and takes about 23 minutes.
How kind of mileage does your car get? It averages about 21 miles per gallon in the city.
How many gallons does your car hold? About 17 gallons
How much is gas? About $3.75/gallon right now.
the cheaper option saves you$ ?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! dollars of turkey needed
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Cost of driving to the neighborhood store:
[ miles ] / [ miles/gallon ] = [ gallons ] gallons
[ gallons ] x [ dollars/gallon ] = dollars dollars
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Cost of driving to the across town store: gallons dollars
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Total cost to go to neighborhood store: dollars
Total cost to go to across town store: dollars
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The cheaper option saves:
$1.11
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