To find how many pounds of apples you can buy with a gallon of milk at each store, we need to compare the price of apples and the price of a gallon of milk at each store.
At Walmart, a gallon of milk costs $2.79. Let's assume the price of a pound of apples is "x" dollars. So, with $32, you can buy 32/2.79 = 11.47 gallons of milk.
Now, we need to find how many pounds of apples you can buy with 11.47 gallons of milk. Since the price of a gallon of milk is $2.79 and we assumed the price of apples is "x" dollars per pound, we multiply 11.47 and "x" to get the amount spent:
11.47 * $2.79 = 31.9973 dollars (approximately).
Since the amount spent on milk and the amount spent on apples should add up to $32, we can write the equation:
31.9973 + x = 32
Solving this equation, we find:
x = 32 - 31.9973
x = 0.0027.
Therefore, with a gallon of milk at Walmart, you can buy approximately 0.0027 pounds of apples.
Similarly at Safeway, you can repeat the above steps with the cost of a gallon of milk and the cost of a pound of apples at Safeway to determine how many pounds of apples you can buy with a gallon of milk at that store. make this sound like a 7th grader
To figure out how many pounds of apples you can buy with a gallon of milk at each store, we need to compare the prices. Let's start with Walmart. A gallon of milk costs $2.79 there. We'll say a pound of apples costs "x" dollars.
So, if you have $32, you can buy 32 divided by 2.79 gallons of milk at Walmart. That gives us around 11.47 gallons of milk.
Now, we want to know how many pounds of apples you can buy with that much milk. Since a gallon of milk is $2.79 and a pound of apples is "x" dollars, we multiply 11.47 by "x" to find out how much we spent on apples.
After multiplying, we get 31.9973 dollars (approximately). But we want the total amount spent on both milk and apples to add up to $32. So we can write an equation like this:
31.9973 + x = 32
When we solve this equation, we find that x is equal to 0.0027.
Therefore, at Walmart, you can buy approximately 0.0027 pounds of apples with a gallon of milk.
You can use the same steps to find out how many pounds of apples you can buy with a gallon of milk at Safeway, just by looking at their prices for milk and apples.