so Charity is buying peaches at the store. The cost of the peaches are $1.30 per pound. If she has $6.50 to spend on peaches, how many pounds (x) can she buy?

Question

Set up an equation to solve the problem.

Answer 1

To set up the equation, we can denote the number of pounds of peaches that Charity can buy as \( x \). The cost per pound of peaches is $1.30. Therefore, the total cost of the peaches she buys can be expressed as \( 1.30x \).

Since Charity has $6.50 to spend, we can set up the equation:

\[ 1.30x = 6.50 \]

To find the number of pounds \( x \), we can solve this equation by dividing both sides by 1.30:

\[ x = \frac{6.50}{1.30} \]

Now, let's calculate \( x \):

\[ x = 5 \]

So, Charity can buy 5 pounds of peaches.