You buy rice at $0.71 a pound. one batch of fried rice requires 3 pounds rice. how much does the rice for one batch cost? round to the nearest cents

$2.13

Step-by-step explanation:

For one batch of fried rice you need 3 pound of rice, so to know the price per batch we need to know how much 3 pounds of rice cost.

The information we have is

Price          Pounds

$0.71      ⇒     1

    x        ⇒     3

the x is the cost of 3 pound of rice, which we find by multiplying $0.71 by 3:

x = ($0.71)(3)= $2.13

The cost of 3 pounds of rice is $2.13, so this is how much the cost in rice for one batch of fried rice is.