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At a certain store, one can buy 6 cans of juice for $8. How
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At a certain store, one can buy 6 cans of juice for $8. How many cans of this same juice could one buy with $48?
A 14
B 36
C 48
D 64
E 96
A 14
B 36
C 48
D 64
E 96
Re: At a certain store, one can buy 6 cans of juice for $8. How
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27 Jun 2018, 06:35
27 Jun 2018, 06:35
amorphous wrote:
At a certain store, one can buy 6 cans of juice for $8. How many cans of this same juice could one buy with $48?
A 14
B 36
C 48
D 64
E 96
A 14
B 36
C 48
D 64
E 96
Here,
For $48 one can buy = \(\frac{6}{8}\) * 48 = 36 cans
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Re: At a certain store, one can buy 6 cans of juice for $8. How
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23 Mar 2022, 12:14
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amorphous wrote:
At a certain store, one can buy 6 cans of juice for $8. How many cans of this same juice could one buy with $48?
A 14
B 36
C 48
D 64
E 96
A 14
B 36
C 48
D 64
E 96
APPROACH #1: Number sense
In the given information, $8 was spent, and now we want to spend $48
$48 is 6 times the original amount of money spent, which means $48 will buy us 6 times the number of cans originally purchased.
Another words $48 will buy us (6)(6) cans (36 cans)
Answer: B
APPROACH #2: Equivalent ratios
If we can reword the given information in the form for every x, we have y, then we have a ratio question.
In this case we can say, for every $8, we get 6 cans of juice.
This means we can solve the question using equivalent ratios in the form number of dollars/number of cans.
Let x = the number of cans that can be purchased for $48.
We get: 8/6 = 48/x
Cross multiply: 8x = 6(48)
Divide both sides of the equation by 8 to get: x = 6(6) = 36
Answer: B
