A grocery store sells tangerines in 2/3 kg bags. A customer bought 4 kg of tangerines for a school party. How many bags did he buy?
1.) In the situation above, what represents the total? *
Explanation:
Given:
In bags =2/3 kg;
Purchased=4 kg.
Find:
How many bags the customer bought.
Decision:
To solve the problem, we need to convert a fraction to a decimal number:
2/3=0,67.
Now let's find the number of bags:
4/067=5,9=6.
Hence, the customer bought 6 bags.
Answer: 440 grams for 1.54 is the better value
Explanation:
Take the price and divide by the number of grams
1.54 / 440 =0.0035 per gram
1.26 / 340 =0.003705882 per gram
0.0035 per gram < 0.003705882 per gram