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prealgebra senior
Problem
A consumer report revealed the following information about three tubes of toothpaste. Bright is more expensive than Fresh and has less volume than Glow. Glow is less expensive than Bright and has more volume than Fresh. Fresh costs \1.00$ per unit of volume. What is the number of cents per unit of volume of Glow?
Solution
Make a table to organize the information about the cost and the volume of the three tubes of toothpaste. Let the number of units of volume in one tube of Fresh be . Then the cost of one tube of Fresh is \u60\%\. Also, since Glow has more volume than Fresh, the volume of a tube of Glow is units. Finally, multiply the volume of Glow by to find the volume of Bright, and multiply the cost of Bright by to find the cost of Glow. Dividing the cost of a tube of Glow by its volume, we find a cost-per-unit-volume of \\frac{6}{5}u\div \frac{4}{3}u=\ cents.
Final answer
90