Bananas are on sale at 8 for $.96. What is the cost of 7 bananas?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-29T19:14:23

7 bananas = $.84 cents

because you take $.96 cents and divide it by 8, which gives you $.12 cents each per banana. $.12 each x 7 bananas gives you $.84 for 7 bananas.

Answer 2 · 2018-04-29T19:14:42

$$0.84$

You can use the ''unitary method' which means finding the price of $1$ banana first;

$8$ bananas cost $$0.96$
$1$ banana costs $0.96 div 8 = $0.12" "larr$ this is the unit price

$7$ bananas cost $7 xx $0.12 = $0.84$

Or you can use a proportion method by comparing the number of bananas with the price:

$8/0.96 = 7/x" "(larr"number of bananas")/(larr"price")$

$x = (0.96xx7)/8$

$x = $0.84$