Cherries are on sale at the grocery store at a price of $5 for 2 pounds. Oscar buys 3 pounds. If he is charged the sale price for the cherries, how much will Oscar pay?

$7.5 = 3 pounds

Step-by-step explanation:

1. If $5 is equal to 2 pounds of cherries, you want to find what 1 pound of cherries cost. You should divided 5 by 2 and 2 by 2 to find what 1 pound of cherries cot.

2. That means that 1 pound of cherries cost $2.5.

3. Now we want to find how much money 3 pounds cost, so you should multiply the 2.5 and the 1 by 3.

4. Now that gets you to $7.5 for 3 pounds of cherries.s

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step-by-step explanation:

if you want to solve percent error follow these steps.

1. subtract the accepted value from the experimental value.

2. take the absolute value of step 1.

3. divide that answer by the accepted value.

4. multiply that answer by 100 and add the % symbol to express the answer as a percentage.

if you want to solve percent of change just do this.

1. work out the difference (increase) between the two numbers you are comparing.

2. divide the increase by the original number and multiply the answer by 100. if your answer is a negative number then this is a percentage decrease.

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