SOLUTION: If nine pounds of pears cost x dollars, then what is the
price per pound?
Answer question with a rational expression. Be sure to
include the units.
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include the units.
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Question 330206: If nine pounds of pears cost x dollars, then what is the
price per pound?
Answer question with a rational expression. Be sure to
include the units.
should this question be worked as follows?
9x*x=x
and if so what is the answer? I can't seem to understand this Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Let's put a specific value in for and then expand what we discover into a more general statement of the situation.
Assume for the moment that the amount of money spent on the fruit was $9.00. Clearly you can see that each of the nine pounds must have cost $1.00. Likewise, if the store clerk had asked for $18.00, each pound would have been worth $2.00, and if the bill had been $27.00 -- I would put the pears back and investigate the price of apples.
The pattern seems to be that if I divide the total cost, in dollars, by the number of pounds of fruit purchased, the result is the cost in dollars per pound.
dollars per pound.
for this situation.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
