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Your favorite fruit is on sale at a supermarket for $1.99/pound. You would like to spend all the money you have in your pocket, $10.80, on the fruit. How many pounds of the fruit can you buy?

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What is the unit of given information (unit A in the picture above)? ($; pounds; $/pound; pound/$)
What is the unit of wanted information (unit B in the picture above)? ($; pounds; $/pound; pound/$)
Create a conversion factor to show how many pounds you can buy

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Given your favourite fruit is for $1.99/pound, you can buy 5.43 lb with $10.80.

You have $10.80 to buy your favourite food. This is the given information (unit is $).

You want to know how many pounds of it you can buy. This is the wanted information (unit is pounds).

The price of the fruit is $1.99/pound. This is the conversion factor (units are $/pound).

The number of pounds of your favourite fruit that you can buy are:

[tex]\$10.80 \times \frac{1lb}{\$1.99} = 5.43 lb[/tex]

Given your favourite fruit is for $1.99/pound, you can buy 5.43 lb with $10.80.

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