Answer:
Approximately equal to
0.5
cents.
Step-by-step explanation:
Explanation:
Divide
5.79
by
12
to find the answer or you can use a proportion to calculate it (really helpful for me).
First, I put
12
over
5.79
so
12
5.79
. So we have socks/costs. You can have costs/socks. It does not matter.
They asked for how much is one pair of socks, we can write
12 pair of socks
$
5.79
=
1 pair of socks
x
Here
x
represents the cost of
1
pair of socks. It is good to use a variable when you have an unknown value.
Then we can do cross-multiplication. We have
12
x
=
$
5.79
Solving for
x
gives you
x
=
$
0.4825
or approximately equal to
0.5
cents (do not forget the unit).
