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? Set up an equation to solve the problem.

Answer 1

To find out how many pounds of peaches Charity can buy, we can set up an equation based on the cost of the peaches per pound and the total amount of money she has.

Let \( x \) be the number of pounds of peaches Charity can buy. The cost per pound of peaches is $1.30, and the total amount of money she has is $6.50.

We can set up the following equation:

\[ 1.30x = 6.50 \]

Now, to solve for \( x \), we divide both sides of the equation by 1.30:

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

Calculating the right-hand side:

\[ x = 5 \]

So Charity can buy 5 pounds of peaches.