the store was selling 3 pounds of rice for $8.43. how much is 1 pound of rice

Answer 1

If you know that the cost of rice was $8.43/3 lbs, then all you have to do is divide $8.43 by 3 to find the price of one pound of rice.

3 goes into 8 twice with a remainder of 2. Bringing down the 4 in the tenths place, 3 goes into 24 8 times with no remainder. Finally we bring down the 3 in the hundredths place, and 3 goes into 3 once.

This gives us a 2 in the ones place, an 8 in the tenths place, and a 1 in the hundredths place, so our final answer is that one pound of rice costs $2.83