Denise buys a tote bag at a gift shop for $12. The same bag is available at Denise’s pharmacy for 2/3 the price she paid at the gift shop. Let’s say you have enough money to buy 10 bags from the gift shop. How many bags can you buy from the pharmacy with the same amount of money?

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anonymous · Answer

options are:
3
12
15
18

thatawayz · Answer

assuming it means "if you could buy 10 bags from the store selling them for 12 dollars, how many can you buy in the pharmacy for the same amount of money..."

anonymous · Answer

120?

mathmale · Answer

Easier to give you good feedback if you'd please show your work.

Calculate how much one tote bag would cost at the pharmacy.  Then we'll do the rest of this problem using that result.

anonymous · Answer

11.4?

anonymous · Answer

First you take 1/3 of 12, then multiply it by 2 to get 2/3 of 12. That will by your price of the bag at the pharmacy.

mathmale · Answer

Look, val:  you may need to do some work to undrstand this problem and carry out the correct operations to obtain the correct answer.

I asked you to calculate the unit price of one tote bag purchased in a pharmacy.  How would you go about doing that?