Marco needs to buy some cat food. At the nearest store, 3 bags of cat food cost $15.75. How much would Marco spend on 5 bags of cat food?

Mathematics · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020

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Given the statement:

Marco needs to buy some cat food. At the nearest store, 3 bags of cat food cost $15.75.

Determine how much would Marco spend on 5 bags of cat food.

Solution:
In order to determine how much would Marco spend on 5 bags of cat food, we simply need to determine how much does each cat food cost. To do so we divide the total cost of the 3 cat food by 3.

= $15.75/3

=$5.25

Now we multiply 5.25 by 5.

= ($5.25)(5)

=$26.25

Final answer:
5 bags of cat food would cost $26.25