Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Get it..?

Answer 3

yea thx

Answer 4

Np!

Answer 5

Shoot wrong one it's..-

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

Ya understand? :)

Answer 8

yea u got it right but i needed it in words

Answer 9

Ohhhh.

Answer 10

Shoot.

Answer 11

its ok

Answer 12

Sorry..😞

Answer 13

it ok

Answer 14

Ok.