Question

A shopper paid $2.52 for 4.5 pounds of potatoes and $7.75 for 2.5 pounds of broccoli. What is the unit price of each item she bought?

Answer 1

Unit price is $ 0.56 per pound of potatoes

Unit price is $ 3.1 per pound of broccoli

Solution:

Given that,

Unit price is the price of 1 unit

$\textrm{Unit Price} = \frac{\textrm{Total cost on n products}}{\textrm{n}}$

Find unit price of potatoes

A shopper paid $2.52 for 4.5 pounds of potatoes

$Unit\ Price = \frac{2.52}{4.5}\\\\Unit\ Price = 0.56$

Thus unit price is $ 0.56 per pound of potatoes

Find unit price of broccoli

$7.75 for 2.5 pounds of broccoli

$Unit\ Price = \frac{7.75}{2.5}\\\\Unit\ Price = 3.1$

Thus unit price is $ 3.1 per pound of broccoli