One pound of pretzels is 5.75. You want to find the cost of [tex]2 \frac{1}{4} [/tex] of preztels. What you do is 5.75 · [tex]2 \frac{1}{4} [/tex], which results into:
12.9375 dollars of preztels
One pound of sugar is 3.25. You want to find the cost of [tex]2
\frac{1}{4} [/tex] of sugar . What you do is 3.25 · [tex]2 \frac{1}{4}
[/tex], which results into:
7.3125 dollars of sugars
You subtract
12.9375 by 7.3125 and you get:
$5.625 difference
