Ice cream beans are selling for $10 per pound and durians are selling for $9 per pound. If the market sold a total of $196 worth of durians and ice cream beans yesterday, and it sold 11 pounds of durian, which of the following is a good estimation of the total pounds of ice cream beans sold?
2
6
10
14
18
To start solving the problem, we can use the information given to set up an equation:
10x + 9(11) = 196
Here, x represents the number of pounds of ice cream beans sold. We can simplify the equation:
10x + 99 = 196
10x = 97
x = 9.7
However, we can't sell a fraction of a pound, so we need to round our answer to the nearest whole number.
Rounding 9.7 to the nearest whole number gives us 10.
Therefore, the best estimate for the total pounds of ice cream beans sold is 10.
The answer is C) 10.