Examples

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Examples

• If a steak sells for 8.15, what is the cost per
  pound?

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• 2. You have 250 to spend and you need to
  purchase four new tires. If each tire weighs 21
  pounds and costs 42 plus 2.50 tax, how much
  money will you have to spend after buying tires?

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• 3. At the beginning of a year, the odometer on a
  car read 25,124 miles. At the end of the year,
  it read 37,364 miles. If the car averaged 24
  miles per gallon, how many gallons of gasoline
  did it use during the year?

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• 4. A store received 200 containers of juice to be
  sold by April 1. Each container cost the store
  0.75 and sold for 1.25. The store signed a
  contract with the manufacturer in which the
  manufacturer agreed to a 0.50 refund for every
  container not sold by April 1. If 150 containers
  were sold by April 1, how much profit did the
  store make?