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marshae:

Bone-shaped treats are 5 for $3.50 at Shelley’s store and Sarah wants to buy 12. She set up and solved this proportion to find how much they would cost. Describe her error and find the correct solution.

MxxnLight:

5 3.5 = 12 x 3.5x = 60 x = $17.14

MxxnLight:

Get it..?

marshae:

yea thx

MxxnLight:

Np!

MxxnLight:

Shoot wrong one it's..-

MxxnLight:

Sarah multiplied the denominator by the denominator and the numerator by the numerator instead of finding the cross products. The equation should be 5x = 42, so the cost should be $8.40.

MxxnLight:

Ya understand? :)

marshae:

yea u got it right but i needed it in words

MxxnLight:

Ohhhh.

MxxnLight:

Shoot.

marshae:

its ok

MxxnLight:

Sorry..😞

marshae:

it ok

MxxnLight:

Ok.

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