If three pounds of coffee costs $22. 56, what is the cost per pound of coffee? record your answer and fill in the bubbles on your answer document. Be sure to use the correct place value.



Answer :

The cost per pound of coffee if three pounds of coffee costs $22. 56 is $7.52.

This is a basic division problem. Division is one of the four basic mathematic operations : addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Here the cost of an item implies the amount of money required to purchase that item.

Here it is given that three pounds of coffee cost $22.56, therefore one pound of coffee cost is obtained by dividing the cost of three pounds o coffee by the amount of coffee, that is 3.

Cost per pound of coffee = $22.56/ 3

= $7.52

Thus one pound of coffee costs 7 dollars and 52 cents.

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