Question

Tom spent on a large bag of dog food. Because he was not happy about the high price of the food, he decided to figure out how much one cup of it would cost. He calculated that one cup of dog food costs $0.375 , or about $0.38 . How many cups of dog food are in the bag?

a. Use rounding to estimate the number of cups. Explain or show your work.
b. Calculate the exact number of cups. Explain or show your work.
c. Based on the exact answer, is your estimate reasonable? Explain.

Answer 1

How large is the bag

Answer 2

oh sorry hold on

Answer 3

$18.75

Answer 4

um sorry what?

Answer 5

If the bag cost $18.75 and each cup cost $0.38. U can divide $0.38 into $18.75 to find how many cups are in the bag

Answer 6

oh ok

Answer 7

because the total cost of the food cost $18.75, this mean the number of cups adding together = to the cost of the food.
now we know that each cup cost $0.375, which mean
no. of cups x $0.375 = $18.75
18.75/ 0.375 = 50 = 50 cups

Answer 8

sorry if i confuse you... T ^ T

Answer 9

A would be 50 and b is 49.34

Answer 10

@EEmarr is right, it should be 50