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TSI Math: Finding the Cost of Pears through Division and Multiplication 4 Views
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Description:
If 9 pears cost $2.52, then how much do 4 pears cost?
Transcript
- 00:02
All right sy mass Shmoop er's First in a new
- 00:04
siri's we got word problems and applications here's where applying
- 00:08
words to numbers So here we go let's Try the
- 00:10
first one if nine payers cost two dollars fifty two
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cents than how much do four pairs cost All right
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- 00:21
so there's clearly an inequality here like nine is two
- 00:25
two fifty two Asfour is toe what right Pretty easy
- 00:28
inequality There you cross multiply to get the answer so
- 00:32
think it through Well if nine pairs or two fifty
- 00:34
to the cost of a single pair is one ninth
- 00:37
that amount so that's another way you could solve the
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problem Do you multiply one nine by two fifty that
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gets you twenty eight cents and multiply that by forget 00:00:45.07 --> [endTime] cia buck twelve Well cares or expensive
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