Harold bought 3 pounds of red apples and 42 pounds of green apples from Blue Star Grocery, where both kinds of apples are s17s a pound. How much did Harold spend on apples?

1 Answer
Qinglong Diep
Jun 18, 2018

Harold spend $7.65 on apples.

Explanation:

So if I'm reading this question right, both kinds of apples cost $0.17 cent a pound then you need to multiply it in two equations or just one question.

First Method:

Red Apples - 0.17*3=0.51
Green Apples - 0.17*42=7.14

Total Cost - 7.14+0.51=7.65

Second Method

You could of added the pounds of red apples with green apples as they cost the same amount of per pound so

42+3=45

So there is 45 pounds of apples together that cost the same price per pound which is 0.17 so we can multiply this by 45 like this:

0.17*45

Our final answer gives us 7.65 the same answer as the first method of doing it.

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