a toy store sold $3,696 worth of Furry Mutts for $24 each. how many were sold?

Question

a toy store sold $3,696 worth of Furry Mutts for $24 each. how many were sold?

Answer 1

Sara, this problem involves division to determine the answer from the total toys sold with the cost of each.

 

You know that the toy store had $3,696 as the total amount sold and that each Furry Mutt cost $24 each. To determine the amount of total Furry Mutts, you would divide 3,696 by 24. 3,696÷24 is 154 so there are 154 Furry Mutts sold.

 

If it does not make sense, look at this scenario: if you have $10 spent on candy bars that cost $2 each, then how many candy bars did you buy? You would divide the total cost by the amount of each candy to give the number of candy bars purchased (10÷2=5). Doing the reverse math, you would find that it takes 5 $2 candy bars to equal 10 (5•2=10) thus you would use division to solve the original problem.

 

I hope this helps!