Create Proportions, it makes life easy! 6 for £2.88 ? for £7.20 [tex] \frac{6}{2.88} [/tex] = [tex] \frac{?}{7.20} [/tex] (?)×(2.88) = (7.20)×(6) ? = [tex] \frac{7.20*6}{2.88} [/tex] ? = 15 15 Pens can be bought for £7.20
o3 We'll first you need to divide (we're making this into just hundreds here) 288 by 6 and 6 goes into 288 48 times so each pen must be £0.48 so now we need to divide 720 by 48 to see how many pens can be bought with that amount: 720÷48=15 so 15 pens can be bought with £7.20
