SOLUTION: For dinner on Saturday, Mr. Brown went to Wegmans and purchased buns, ice cream, milk, and hamburger whose costs were in the ration 2:3:4:7. He paid a total of $14.40.
(a) Fin
Algebra ->
Percentage-and-ratio-word-problems
-> SOLUTION: For dinner on Saturday, Mr. Brown went to Wegmans and purchased buns, ice cream, milk, and hamburger whose costs were in the ration 2:3:4:7. He paid a total of $14.40.
(a) Fin
Log On
Question 935412: For dinner on Saturday, Mr. Brown went to Wegmans and purchased buns, ice cream, milk, and hamburger whose costs were in the ration 2:3:4:7. He paid a total of $14.40.
(a) Find the cost of the ice cream
(b) find the cost of the hamburger. Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You list three items but give a ratio among four numbers.
Yes, I do not know how I missed all four:
(1)Buns
(2)ice cream
(3)milk
(4)hamburger
MathTherapy already answered and gave a good solution.
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
For dinner on Saturday, Mr. Brown went to Wegmans and purchased buns, ice cream, milk, and hamburger whose costs were in the ration 2:3:4:7. He paid a total of $14.40.
(a) Find the cost of the ice cream
(b) find the cost of the hamburger.
2:3:4:7 = 2 + 3 + 4 + 7 = 16 parts
Ice cream cost: , or $
Hamburger cost: , or $
(