Question

16 oz harbor peanut butter for 2.49 or a 64 oz jar of peanut butter for 6.99 round everything up to the nearest cent or hundreth. yes mam

Answer 1

We have to find the "better buy" between two options:

1) 16 oz jar for $2.49

2) 64 oz jar for $6.99

We can compare this two options with the unit price of each one. The unit price will be expressed in "$ per oz" or "$/oz". The option with the smaller unit price is the "better buy".

We can calculate the unit price as teh quotient between the price and the weight of each option.

Unit price for Option 1:

`u_1=\frac{2.49\text{ \$}}{16\text{ oz}}\approx0.16(\$)/(oz)_{}`

Unit price for Option 2:

`u_2=\frac{6.99\text{ \$}}{64\text{ oz}}\approx0.11(\$)/(oz)`

As the Option 2 (64 oz jar) has a smaller unit price, the better buy is the 64 oz jar for $6.99.

Answer: the better buy is the 64 oz jar for $6.99.