If you can buy 1⁄3 of a pound of turkey for 4 dollars, how much can you purchase for 10 dollars? Write your answer as a fraction of a pound.
Answer:
\(\frac{5}{6}\) pound of turkey you purchase for 10 dollars
Step-by-step explanation:
Unit rate defined as the rates are expressed as a quantity 1 such as 3 meter per second or 4 miles per hour.
As per the statement:
If you can buy 1⁄3 of a pound of turkey for 4 dollars
by definition of unit rate we have;
\(\text{Unit rate per dollars} = \frac{\frac{1}{3} }{4} = \frac{1}{12}\) pound of turkey.
We have to find how much can you purchase for 10 dollars.
\(\text{Weight of turkey for 10 dollars} = \text{Unit rate per dollars} \times 10\)
⇒\(\text{Weight of turkey for 10 dollars}=\frac{1}{12} \times 10 = \frac{5}{6}\) pound
Therefore, \(\frac{5}{6}\) pound of turkey you purchase for 10 dollars