A 6-pack of 4oz containers of yogaurt costs 2.99. what is the unit price in cents per ounce? Round to the nearest hundredths of a cent.
First I would take 6 x 4 = 24 oz. Then I would divide 2.99/24 and get an answer of .1245833.
Would my answer be 12 cents/oz or 13 cents/oz
Your instructions say to round to the nearest hundredths of a cent.
.1245833 = $0.1246
twelve and forty-hundredths of a cent.
Correction:
twelve cents and forty-six hundredths
I do not understand the 46 hundredeths. isn't the 2 in the hundredths?
The 2 is hundredths of a dollar.
12 cents = $0.12
To get hundredths of a cent you need $0.1246
For the first time ever I understand. Thank you very much. Your correction helped me out immensely.
To find the unit price in cents per ounce, you need to divide the total cost by the total number of ounces.
In this case, the total cost is $2.99, and the total number of ounces is 24 (6 containers x 4 oz each).
So, using the formula: unit price = total cost / total number of ounces, you would calculate: 2.99 / 24 = 0.1245833.
To round to the nearest hundredth of a cent, you would look at the digit in the thousandth place (3 in this case). If the digit is 5 or more, you round up; if it's less than 5, you round down.
In this case, since the digit is 4, you would round down. Therefore, the unit price in cents per ounce would be 12 cents/oz.