Chapter 9, Problem 92H

‘MacaronI and Cheese, please! I” by Nedda Misberghl and Rachelle Hall

As a poor starving student I don’t have much money to spend for even the bare necessities. So my favoite and main staple food is macaroni and cheese. ks high in taste and low In cost and nutritional value.

One day, as I sat down to deterniine the meaning of life. I got a senous craving for this, oh, so important, food of my life. So I went down the sn-eel to Greatwa to get a box of macaroni and cheese, but it was SO expensive! $2.02 !!! Can you believe It? It made me stop and think. The world Is changing fast. I had thought that the mean cost of a box (the normal size, not some super-gigantIc-fam1ly-valuepack) was at most Si, but now I wasn’t so sure. However, I was determined o find out. I went to 53 of the closest gxocery stores and surveyed the prices of macaroni and cheese. Hete axe the data I wrote In my noteboolc

Price per box of Mac and Cheese:

• 5 stoies @ $2.02

• l5stores@S0.25

• 3stores@S1.29

• 6 stoies @ $0.35

• 4 stoies @ $2.27

• 7 soies@Sl.SO

• Sstores@Sl.89

• 8 stotes @ 0.75.

I could see that the cost varied but I had to sit down to figure out whether or not I was right. If it does turn out that this mouth-watering dish Is at most Si, then I’ll throw a big cheesy panv in our next statistics lab, with enough macaroni and cheese for just me. (After all, as a poor starving student I can’t be expected to feed our class of animals!)