Q:

If 4 mint chocolates cost $2.00 how many mint chocolates can you get for $5.00

Accepted Solution

A:
Firstly we need to know the price of 1 mint chocolate, if four are equal to $2.00 then one is equal to:[tex]2.00 \div 4[/tex]That equation would allow us to know the price of a single mint chocolate being $ .05.therefore you now know the price of one mint chocolate now to know how much you can get for five dollars you see how many times 0.5 can go in 5Approximately 10 times therefore we can get 10 mint chocolates from $5