P is the cost of a pound of peanuts and F is the cost of a pound of dried fruit
0.5p+0.75f=6.5
0.75p+0.25f=4.5
Rearrange
0.5p=-0.75f+6.5
Simplify
P=-1.25f+13
Substitute
0.75(-1.25f+13)+0.25f=4.5
simplify
-0.9375f+9.75+0.25f=4.5
<span>-0.6875f+9.75=4.5
</span>-0.6875f=-5.25
f=7.636364
Round
F=$<span>7.64 per pound
</span>
Plug in
0.75p+0.25(7.64)=4.5
Simplify
0.75p+<span>1.91=4.5
0.75p=</span><span>2.59
</span>p=3.453333
Round
P=$3.45 per pound of peanuts
Final
P=$3.45 per pound of peanuts
F=$7.64 per pound of dried fruit
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There are 4 terms in the expression ^_^
5 and 1/4 can be 5.25 so all you have to do is divide that by 3 and you’ll get 1.75 per container.
If you wanted to keep it as a fraction, 5 and 1/4 would become 21/4 (you do 5 x 4= 20 + 1) and for fractions I always remembered dividing as ‘Keep, Change, Flip’ so you would do 21/4 for keep. Change would be to change the sign from division to multiplication. And for Flip you would flip 3 over 1 (3/1) to 1/3
Putting that all together would be 21/4 x 1/3 which also equals 21/12 by multiplying the denominators and numerators. Then you simplify, dividing it by 3 to equal 7/4 and another simplify to be 1 and 3/4 which is 1.75.
Hope this helps!
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