Can you solve the following simpler problem:I know the answer. I need to know the steps. If 8 2/3 quarts of strawberries cost $1 39/50, what is the price of 1 quart?
$1.00/2 Quarts = .50 I think I'm missing a step with the fractions.Can you solve the following simpler problem:
If 2 quarts of strawberries cost $1.00, what is the price of 1 quart?
Please show the steps
That's correct, and it's what we call a rate: $0.50 per quart.$1.00/2 Quarts = .50
Are you implying that you've already tried dividing the given numbers? If so, then please share your work. Otherwise, I'm not sure what you mean.I think I'm missing a step with the fractions.
Yes. I tried dividing the numbers. $1 39/50 divided by 8 2/3 quartsThat's correct, and it's what we call a rate: $0.50 per quart.
In other words, you divided total dollars by total quarts, and the result is [imath]\frac{\text{DOLLARS}}{\text{QUART}}[/imath] or dollars per one quart.
The dollars-per-quart rate is what they're asking for in your exercise, too. Total cost is [imath]1+\frac{39}{50}[/imath] dollars and total quarts is [imath]8+\frac{2}{3}[/imath].
Convert the mixed numbers to improper fractions first, then use the rule for dividing fractions.
Also, I'm thinking that they probably want an exact answer, written as a reduced, proper fraction (i.e., not a decimal number) -- like writing 1/2 instead of 0.50.
Are you implying that you've already tried dividing the given numbers? If so, then please share your work. Otherwise, I'm not sure what you mean.I think I'm missing a step with the fractions.
Correct. But, let's forget about decimal approximations.89/50 [÷] 26/3
89/50 X 3/26 = 267/1300 ...
= .2053846
Oh, for Pete's sake. They gave you the money unit "dollars", but they want the answer written in "cents"? (They could have said so, in the instructions.)The answer in the book shows 20 7/13 cents.
No, that division is not a unit conversion; we began by comparing dollars to quarts, so the result compares dollars to quarts.Isn't converting dollars to cents dividing 267 by 1300?
Hi. The conversion from dollars to cents is the same whether the dollars are Whole numbers, fractions or decimal numbers (doesn't matter). Multiply by 100 cents per dollar.I guess I do need help converting fractions of dollars to cents.