Jessica is buying several bunches of bananas to make desserts for a fundraiser. She can buy 10 pounds of bananas at Smiths for $14.90 or 8 pounds at Walmart for $12.08. How much would the cost per pound be at Smiths?

Lin is writing an equation to model the proportional relationship between y, the total cost in dollars of downloading videos from a website, and x, the number of videos downloaded. she knows that the total cost to download 3 videos was $12. her work to find the equation is shown below. joylin’s work step 1 k= 3/12= 0.25 step 2 y= 0.25x where did joylin make her first error?

Which problem would you use the following proportion to solve for? 24/x=40/100 a. what is 40% of 24? b. what percent is 24 of 40? c. twenty-four is 40% of what number? d. forty percent of 24 is what number?

Explain how you can show five less than a number using an algebraic expression