Question

Calculate the unit price of each of the following items: (Enter your answers in cents rounded to 2 decimal places. For example, $0.01 is 1.00 cent.) Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Motor oil—2 quarts for $1.48 Cereal--15 ounces for $3.90 Canned fruit-13 ounces for 0.85 cents Facial tissue-300 tissues for $2.15 74 00 26,00 65.38 cents/quart cents/ounce cents/ounce 0.71% 0.71 x cents/100 tissues

please help!

Answer 1

AnswerC

For 0.85 cents we get 13 ounce. So for 1 ounce we get,

cents	ounce
0.85	13
?	1

=0.85/13 = 0.06538 cents/ounce

Answer D

For $2.15 we get 300 tissues. So for 100 tissues we get

$2.15 = 215 cents

cents	tissues
215	300
?	100

= (215*100)/300 = 71.67 cents/100tissues

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