A store has apples on sale for three dollars for 2 pounds. How many pounds of apples can you buy for nine dollars. If an apple is approximately 5 ounces how many apples can you buy for nine dollars? Explain your reasoning
So for the first question I got 6 apples because I divided 9 by 1.50 because half of $3.00 is $1.50 and my answer was 6.
For the next question I was going to do $9 divided by .05 and got 180 what do I do next
I got 6 apples because I divided 9 by $1.50 because half of $3.00 is $1.50 and I got 6.then I did $9.00 divided by 0.5 ounces and I got180.so with $9.00 you can buy 96 ounces of apples
1 ounce = 0.0625 pounds
2 pounds = 32 ounces which costs 3 dollars
with 9 dollars we can buy 96 ounces of apples
apples = 96 ounces/5 ounces = 19.2
I got 19.2 apples but you cant actually buy 19.2 apples so the answer is 19 apples
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To find out how many pounds of apples you can buy for nine dollars, you first need to determine the cost of one pound of apples. Since the store sells 2 pounds of apples for three dollars, the cost of one pound of apples is:
$3 / 2 pounds = $1.50 per pound
Next, you can divide the nine dollars by the cost per pound to find out how many pounds of apples you can buy:
$9 / $1.50 per pound = 6 pounds of apples
For the second question, you want to know how many apples you can buy for nine dollars. Since each apple weighs approximately 5 ounces, you first need to convert nine dollars into the cost per ounce. To do this, you divide the nine dollars by the total weight of the apples you can buy for that amount:
$9 / (6 pounds x 16 ounces per pound) = $9 / 96 ounces = $0.09375 per ounce
Next, you divide the cost of one dollar by the cost per ounce to find out how many ounces you can buy with one dollar:
1 / $0.09375 per ounce = 10.67 ounces
Finally, you can divide the total amount of ounces you can buy by the weight of a single apple to find out how many apples you can buy for nine dollars:
10.67 ounces / 5 ounces per apple = 2.134 apples
Therefore, you can buy approximately 2 apples for nine dollars.