Question

At the store, 6 pencils sell for $.99. At this rate what is the cost of 16 pencils?

Answer 1

How do YOU think you should solve this?

Answer 2

i don't know its confuses me

Answer 3

Set up a proportion like I showed you a few minutes ago.

http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1289766842

Answer 4

9.9/6 = x/16

or how would i writea proportion for that?

Answer 5

Almost right.

0.99/6 = x/16