contestada

The bakery manager at the grocery store marks down the price of bread by 18%. Shanaya purchases 5 loaves of bread. The expression 5(b-0.18b) represents the price of 5 loaves of bread. Write an equivalent expression and write the property that justifies your answer.

Respuesta :

texaschic101
5(b - 0.18b).....use the distributive property
5b - 0.90b <== ur equivalent expression
kaalip

Answer:

I wrote the rate, with $5.94 in the numerator and 3 loaves in the denominator. I needed to find an equivalent rate expressed as a fraction with the denominator of 1. I noticed 3 loaves divided by 3 gave a denominator of 1, so I divided $5.94 by 3 to find that each loaf costs $1.98.

Step-by-step explanation: