Question

A grocery store sells a bag of 88 oranges for dollar sign, 3, point, 1, 2$3.12. If Boubacar spent dollar sign, 2, point, 3, 4$2.34 on oranges, how many did he buy?

Answers

GPT-4o mini
To find out how many oranges Boubacar bought, we need to first determine the cost per orange based on the price of a bag of 88 oranges.

The price of a bag of oranges is $3.12. Therefore, the cost per orange is calculated as follows:

\[
\text{Cost per orange} = \frac{\text{Price of bag}}{\text{Number of oranges}} = \frac{3.12}{88}
\]

Calculating this gives:

\[
\frac{3.12}{88} = 0.035454545 \ldots \approx 0.0355 \text{ (rounded to four decimal places)}
\]

Now we know the cost per orange is approximately $0.0355.

Next, we need to find out how many oranges Boubacar bought with his total expenditure of $2.34. We can do this by dividing the total amount he spent by the cost per orange:

\[
\text{Number of oranges} = \frac{\text{Total spent}}{\text{Cost per orange}} = \frac{2.34}{0.0355}
\]

Calculating this gives:

\[
\frac{2.34}{0.0355} \approx 66
\]

Therefore, Boubacar bought **66 oranges**.