Three companies sell their apple juice in different-sized bottles. Jade is calculating the unit prices of each bottle and will consider the one with the lowest unit cost to be the best buy. Which action will cause Jade to misidentify the best buy? Dividing each bottle size by its cost expressing each of the prices in cents instead of dollars finding each unit price per quart instead of per ounce leaving each unit price as an unrounded decimal

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Micaela

11 January, 10:16

Three companies sell their apple juice in different-sized bottles. Jade is calculating the unit prices of each bottle and will consider the one with the lowest unit cost to be the best buy. Which action will cause Jade to misidentify the best buy? Dividing each bottle size by its cost expressing each of the prices in cents instead of dollars finding each unit price per quart instead of per ounce leaving each unit price as an unrounded decimal

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Milo Hancock · Answer 1

Expressing each of the prices in cents. This turncates the real cost to two decimal places. The true cost will be clear if an unrounded decimal is used.