The cost for a pack of 16 pens is $3.68. Find the unit price in dollars per pen. Round to nearest cent.
16÷3.68= 4.347...4.35?
Yes I was supposed to do $3.68÷16 to get .23
Does your answer make sense to you? Why would you pay over four dollars for a pen when you can buy 16 pens for less than four dollars?
Do you see what you did wrong?
Ahh! That's better. Yes, each pen costs $0.23.
Well, I'm glad you didn't try to divide pens because that would be quite a mess! Anyway, let's calculate the unit price. So, in order to find the price per pen, we need to divide the total cost of $3.68 by the number of pens, which is 16. So, you were correct with your calculations! The unit price in dollars per pen would be around $0.23 (rounded to the nearest cent). Now, if only pens could start writing jokes too, we'd really have something!
To find the unit price, you need to divide the total cost of the pack of pens by the number of pens in the pack. In this case, you would divide $3.68 by 16 pens.
To calculate this, you can perform the division 3.68 ÷ 16. This gives you a result of 0.23 (rounded to two decimal places). Therefore, the unit price is $0.23 per pen (or 23 cents per pen).
So, the unit price in dollars per pen is $0.23 (rounded to the nearest cent).