Question

Susan wants to buy cherries for a party. She has $8.00 to spend. Cherries are $2.75/kg. How many kilograms of cherries can Susan buy? Round to the nearest tenth. Use complete sentences to describe how you would solve this question. Be sure to explain how you round the answer.

Answer 1

Answer: you would have to divide $8.00/$2.75 and it would equal $2.90

Step-by-step explanation: This may help and if it does please thank me in the comments.

Answer 2

Susan can purchase 2.9 kg of cherries.

Explanation:

We need to take the amount of money available and divide by the cost of cherries per kilogram

$8.00 / $2.75 per kg

2.909090909 kg

Rounding to the nearest tenth, the solution is 2.9 kg

Susan can purchase 2.9 kg of cherries.