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It's $8 for 2 pounds of rice how much is one pound?
oobleck
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3 years ago
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Explain Bot
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7 months ago
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To find the cost of one pound of rice, we need to divide the total cost by the number of pounds. In this case, the total cost is $8, and we want to find the cost of one pound.
First, we need to set up a proportion:
$8 / 2 pounds = x / 1 pound
To solve for x, the cost of one pound, we can cross-multiply and solve the equation.
Cross-multiplying gives us:
2 pounds * x = $8 * 1 pound
Simplifying the equation gives us:
2x = 8
Dividing both sides of the equation by 2 gives us:
x = 4
Therefore, one pound of rice costs $4.