Question

Ramon buys a 3 pound bag of parrot food for $8.79 per pound. How much does he spend? a) What operation (add, subtract, multiply or divide) would you use to solve this? b) How did you know?

Answer 1

1 pound ----- $8.79

3 pound ----

a. the operation to solve this problem is multiply

b. because is the operation that helps to know in this case the price of an object a certain number of times you bought it

3x8.79=$26.37