Question

2) Marisol paid $3.00 for 2/5 pound of sliced turkey meat. Whatwas the price per pound of the turkey meat?

Answer 1

1) Gathering the data

$3.00 ------ 2/5 pound

x ---------- 1

2) We can solve this problem, using a proportion since we want to find the unit rate for the sliced turkey meat

$3.00 ------ 2/5 pound

x ---------- 1

This is the same as:

$\begin{gathered} \frac{3}{x}=\frac{\frac{2}{5}}{1} \\ \frac{2}{5}x=3 \end{gathered}$

Therefore we can cross multiply it.

2/5x = 3 Multiply both sides by 5 to eliminate the fraction

2x=15 Divide both sides by 2

x=15/2 or $7.5 per pound