Question

What does 1/4 can of coffee cost if 4 cans of coffee costs $2.40?

Answer 1

If 4 cans of coffee cost 2.40, then divide this by 4 to find out how much one can of coffe costs: 2.40/4 = .60. Now, we need to find 1/4 of .60. To do so, again divide by 4: .60/4 = .15. So, the cost of 1/4 can of coffee will be 15 cents.

Answer 2

The cost of coffee of $\dfrac{1}{4}$ can is $\boxed{{\mathbf{15}}\,\,{\mathbf{cent}}}$.

Further explanation:  

Given:

The cost of 4 cans of coffee is $\ 2.40$.

Procedure used:

To find the cost of $x$ item first determine the cost of one item and then multiply it by $x$.

Step by step explanation:

Step 1:

First we convert $\ 2.40$ into cents.

The relation between number of dollars and cents is $\ 1 = 100{\text{ cents}}$.

Therefore,$\ 2.40$ can be converted in the form of cents as,

$\begin{aligned}\ 2.40 &= 2.40 \times 100{\text{ cents}}\\&= {\text{240cents}} \\ \end{aligned}$  

Step 2:

Now determine the cost of coffee of one can.

It is given that the cost of 4 can of coffee is $\ 2.40 = 240{\text{ cents}}$.

Now, divide the cost of 4 cans by 4 to obtain the cost of one can.

$\begin{aligned}{\text{cost of one can}} &= \frac{{240}}{4}\\&= 60\\\end{aligned}$  

Step 3:

Now determine the cost of coffee of $\dfrac{1}{4}$ can.

From step 2, the cost of one can of coffee is $60{\text{ cents}}$.

Multiply $\dfrac{1}{4}$ by 60 to obtain the cost of coffee of $\dfrac{1}{4}$ can as,

$\begin{aligned}{\text{cost of }}\frac{1}{4}{\text{ can}} &= 60 \times \frac{1}{4}\\&= 15\\\end{aligned}$

Therefore, the cost of coffee of $\dfrac{1}{4}$ can is $\boxed{{\mathbf{15}}\,\,{\mathbf{cent}}}$.

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Answer details:

Grade: Junior school

Subject: Mathematics

Chapter: Fraction

Keywords: Coffee, can, cost, one item, multiply, divide, cents, dollars, conversion, number,  , natural number, fraction