Aluminum Wheelchair Math problem help? Please? :S :S?
A student council collects aluminum pop tabs to raise money to purchase a wheelchair. A company buys the pop tabs for $0.88 per kilogram.
If 1267 pop tabs have a mass of one pound, how many pop tabs are needed to purchase a wheelchair worth $1500?
Hint: 1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds
I don't get it, can someone explain it for me?! :S :S :S
$1500 for the wheelchair. $0.88 per kilogram. $1500/$0.88 = 1704.545 = number of kilograms needed.
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If 1267 pop tabs have a mass of 1lbs, how many pop tabs are needed to purchase a wheelchair worth $1500?
This question is for my math class, note that it is not cheating, i, as well as the rest of my class, have gotten permission to surf the web and ask others/ my peers to help solve this tricky equation.
Here is the full Question:
A student council collects aluminum pop tabs to raise money to purchase a wheelchair. A Company buys the pop tabs for $0.88 per kg.
If 1267 pop tabs have a mass of 1lbs, how many pop tabs are needed to purchase a wheelchair worth $1500.
Show your work.
Hint: 1kg= 2.2lbs
1267 tabs in a lb x 2.2 = 2787.4 tabs in a kg
1500(price of the wheelchair / 0.88(paid per kg) = 1704.5454 kilos needed
1704.5454(kg needed) x 2787.4 (tabs in kg) = 4751249.84796 tabs needed
Since this is a decimal we'll round it up as rounding down may mean we don't get paid for the last kg and we'd not be able to make our purchase, And it's difficult to collect 0.8 of a pp tab! So that means we need 4,751,250 pop tabs
