The yield for strawberries is 87%. A pint of strawberries costs $1.92. How much would 1 cup of cleaned strawberries cost?

Question

Culinary math

Answer 1

because there are 2 cups in a pint you want to start by dividing the cost per pint by 2 to get

$1.92 / 2 = $0.96

that means that each cup of uncleaned strawberries costs $0.96

from there then you want to divide by 87% = 0.87 to convert it down into cleaned strawberries

$0.96 / 0.87 = $1.10

meaning that the cost of one cup of cleaned strawberries would be $1.10

Answer 2

A pint is two cups, so per cup the strawberries cost $0.96; 87% of this would be 83.52 cents, which should round to 84 cents. This probably what the problem is looking for, however:

 

The above calculation doesn't acount for the difference between the dry pint and the liquid pint - the liquid pint is bigger by 16.4% but there is no "dry cup." This would make the cup 43% of a dry pint instead of one half (50%), yielding a cost of 71.83 cents which rounds to 72 cents.

 

Hope this helps!