A shopper pays $3.95 for 5 pounds of potatoes. What is the price per pound for potatoes?

Question

HINT: "price per pound" means the price for 1 pound. Set up your equation as "price/pounds". 
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10 points
$0.40
$0.79
$1.05
$1.27

Answer 1

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

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

Given that the total price is $3.95 for 5 pounds of potatoes, you can plug in the values:

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

Now perform the division:

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

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