Question

which store has the lower price for milk, $4.75/gal. or $2.99/2 L carton??

Answer 1

So 4.75 for 1 gal and 2.99 for 2L?

Answer 2

Yah.

Answer 3

3.785L/gal
4.75/3.785L or. 2.99/2L. Divide both and see what you get.

Answer 4

$1.25 for the first one, $1.50 for the second one.

Answer 5

but that's wrong.. i think lol.

Answer 6

Yeah.... Give me a min haha

Answer 7

Well another way you can look at it is by picking a number of L bigger than 3 I'd say 5 and see how they compare.

Answer 8

5L*($4.75/3.785L)=$
5L*($2.99/2L)=$

Answer 9

err.. it's going to be store A always with the lowest price lol.

Answer 10

Yupp. Does this make sense to you? It barely makes sense to me haha.

Answer 11

when you do 2.99/2 = 1.25 what is this?? 1.25 represents what?

Answer 12

kinda...

Answer 13

Dollars per liters

Answer 14

but like 4.75 / 3.79 = $1.50

Answer 15

It's like this $4.75/3.79L right

Answer 16

yea

Answer 17

when you divide it gets 1.50$

Answer 18

what does that mean??

Answer 19

So when you divide and get 1.50 the units stay so $1.50/L the division sign means per so there are $1.50 per one Liter

Answer 20

are you 100% sure?

Answer 21

Yeah I'm pretty sure

Answer 22

alright thanks for helping me. :)

Answer 23

No problem xD