Question

The wholesale club sells a large box of crackers with 12 reams of crackers for $9.89. Your local store’s box of crackers has 4 reams for $4.29. How much do you save by buying the 12 reams from the wholesale club?

Answer 1

To start off take the number of reams of crackers and divide by the total cost of the box: 12/9.89=1.21 and 4/4.29=0.93 to find out how much you pay per ream.
Then what I did was 12x0.93=11.16 (to find out how much you'd be paying with the local price)
Finally subtract 11.16-9.89= 1.27.
So in total you'd save $1.27.
Hope this helps