Question

A box of Cheerios costs $3.25. The box contains 26 ounces of cereal. You eat 4 ounces for breakfast each day. You paid for the cereal with a ten dollar bill. How many full meals can you eat?

Answer 1

You can eat 13 full meals with the given amount of cereal. we divide the total amount of cereal by the amount you eat for breakfast each day: 52 ounces / 4 ounces = 13 meals.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many full meals you can eat, we need to determine how many ounces of cereal you can buy with the given amount of money, and then divide that by the amount you eat for breakfast each day.

The box of Cheerios costs $3.25, and you paid for it with a ten dollar bill. To determine the remaining amount of money, we subtract the cost of the cereal from the ten dollars: $10 - $3.25 = $6.75.

Since the box contains 26 ounces of cereal, we divide the remaining amount of money by the cost per ounce: $6.75 / $3.25 = 2.08. Hence, you can buy 2 boxes of cereal. Each box contains 26 ounces, so the total amount of cereal is 2 * 26 = 52 ounces.

Now, we divide the total amount of cereal by the amount you eat for breakfast each day: 52 ounces / 4 ounces = 13 meals. Therefore, you can eat 13 full meals with the given amount of cereal.