SOLUTION: (a) Michael bought 12 pounds of flour for $5 . How many dollars did he pay per pound of flour? (b) It takes 45 pounds of seed to completely plant a 5-acre field. How many poun

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Question 540864: (a) Michael bought 12 pounds of flour for $5 . How many dollars did he pay per pound of flour?

(b) It takes 45 pounds of seed to completely plant a 5-acre field. How many pounds of seed are needed per acre?
If necessary, round your answers to the nearest hundredth.
Answer by jpg7n16(66) (Show Source):
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Okay, let's say you had $50 and you needed to divide it out to 5 different people. How much would each person get? In this case, you are looking for dollars per person. (per means divided by)

The way you can show that with math is to say that $50/5 people=$10 per person. In this case you started with $50 and divided it out to 5 people.

So it doesn't matter what you're looking at, you can just use the "per" as a dividing symbol for whatever you're looking to calculate.
Elephants per circus =
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Beats per minute =
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The same holds true with your two questions.
Your first question is asking, how many dollars paid per pound of flour? We know what to do here:
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The 2nd question is asking pounds of seed per acre. Hopefully you're comfortable with this by now, and know to just put the "per ___" on the bottom. That gives you:
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