Question

A 12 pack of soda is roughly $2.50. What is the cost per can of soda?

Answer 1

The cost per can of soda is $ 0.2083

Solution:

Given that, a 12 pack of soda is roughly $ 2.50

To find: Cost per can of soda

Which means, we have to find the unit rate

We need to take the amount of money each pack costs and divide it by the number of cans to find the unit rate.

Cost of 12 pack soda = $ 2.50

Cost of 1 pack of soda = ?

The formula used is:

`\text{ Cost of 1 pack of soda} = \frac{\text{ Cost of 12 pack of soda }}{12}`

`\rightarrow (2.50)/(12) = 0.2083`

Thus cost per can of soda is $ 0.2083