Question

At a grocery store, an uncooked beef roast is on sale for $4.99/lb. At the same store, prepared roast beef is at the deli for $2.99/100g. How many times more expensive is the deli roast compared to the uncooked roast?

Answer 1

For us to find out how many times more expensive is the deli roast compared to the uncooked roast we need to change the units;
cost of 100g=0.221lb is $2.99
cost of 1 lb will therefore be:
1/0.221*2.99
=$13.53/lb
therefore the number of times more expensive the deli roast is compared to uncooked roast is:
[price of 1lb roasted meat]/[price of 1 lb uncooked meat]
=13.53/4.99
=2.7 times