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TSI Math: Finding the Cost of Pears through Division and Multiplication 4 Views


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If 9 pears cost $2.52, then how much do 4 pears cost?


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All right sy mass Shmoop er's First in a new

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siri's we got word problems and applications here's where applying

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words to numbers So here we go let's Try the

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first one if nine payers cost two dollars fifty two

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cents than how much do four pairs cost All right

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so there's clearly an inequality here like nine is two

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two fifty two Asfour is toe what right Pretty easy

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inequality There you cross multiply to get the answer so

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think it through Well if nine pairs or two fifty

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to the cost of a single pair is one ninth

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that amount so that's another way you could solve the

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problem Do you multiply one nine by two fifty that

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gets you twenty eight cents and multiply that by forget 00:00:45.07 --> [endTime] cia buck twelve Well cares or expensive

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