Answer:
The cat food costs 2.25 dollars per pound
Step-by-step explanation:
First let's write this like an equation. Let's add a variable instead of pounds and you can name that anything you like. I prefer to use X. And since we have 5 pounds of cat food, we put 5x.
X = 1 Pound of cat food
11.25$ = 5x
Now we want X alone, so we divide both sides by 5
11.25$/5 = 5x/5
Now if we divide we get
2.25$ = X
And if we turn x back into pounds of cat food, we get that, for 2 dollars and 25 cents we have 1 bag of cat food
2.25$ = 1 Pound of cat food
