Question

A total of 350 pounds of cheese is packaged into boxes each containing 1 5 pointsand 3/4 pounds of cheese. Each box is then sold for $1.75. What is the totalselling price of all of the boxes of cheese?150350450550

Answer 1

To solve the exercise, you can first know how many boxes of cheese result with the amount of 350 pounds of cheese.

For this, you can use the rule of three, like this

`\begin{gathered} 1\text{ box}\rightarrow1(3)/(4)\text{ pounds of cheese} \\ x\text{ boxes}\rightarrow350\text{ pounds } \end{gathered}`

So, you have