Question

The weight of 10,000 identical samples of a substance is 10 pounds.
What is the weight of 10 samples?

Answer 1

The price of 10 candies is 1 pound.
What is the price of one candy?

Answer 2

@ag1234

Answer 3

idk

Answer 4

The price of 10 candies is 100 pounds.
What is the price of one candy?

Answer 5

@ag1234 ?

Answer 6

$10???

Answer 7

correct.

Answer 8

yayay!!!

Answer 9

Now how did you calculate that?

Answer 10

100 divided by 10???

Answer 11

Very good.

Now what if the price of those 10 candies were 1 dollar.
What do you think would be the price of 1 candy?

Answer 12

$1???????????

Answer 13

nO. See in the previous case, it was 10 candies = 100 dollars and you found out the price of one candy by 1 candy = 100/10

So when 10 candies = 1 dollar then the price of one = ??
One candy = 1/10 dollars!! :D

Answer 14

Do you know fractions or decimals?

Answer 15

yes

Answer 16

Did you CLEARLY understand that up there? ^

Answer 17

no

Answer 18

wait how does this help me with what im doing?

Answer 19

No probs I'll explain again.

You have a similar kind of problem to solve. :)

Answer 20

okayy

Answer 21

Let us take it like this: Let 10 books be 10 dollars.