A shopper pays $3.95 for 5 pounds of potatoes. What is the price per pound for potatoes? HINT: "price per pound" means the price for 1 pound. Set up your equation as "price/pounds". * 10 points $0.40 $0.79 $1.05 $1.27

Answer 1

To find the price per pound of potatoes, you can set up the equation as follows:

\[ \text{Price per pound} = \frac{\text{Total Price}}{\text{Total Pounds}} \]

In this case, the total price is $3.95 and the total pounds are 5.

Plugging in the values:

\[ \text{Price per pound} = \frac{3.95}{5} \]

Calculating that:

\[ \text{Price per pound} = 0.79 \]

So, the price per pound for potatoes is $0.79.