Problem
Question 17 The rate of consumption for one customer for a menu item is 0.125 , and the menu item uses $\frac{1}{8}$ pound of carrots. The restaurant expects to serve 191 customers in a day. The carrots cost $\$ 0.52$ /pound. How much do the carrots cost the restaurant for the day? Note that rate of consumption refers to the portion of customers one expects on average to consume the menu item from all customers served. (You do not need to include the units. You only need to enter your answer as a number. Round to the nearest cent.)
Solution
Step 1 ：Calculate the total amount of carrots consumed by one customer: \(0.125 \times \frac{1}{8} = 0.015625\) pounds
Step 2 ：Calculate the total amount of carrots consumed by all customers: \(191 \times 0.015625 = 2.984375\) pounds
Step 3 ：Calculate the cost of the carrots: \(2.984375 \times 0.52 = 1.55\) dollars
Step 4 ：\(\boxed{1.55}\) dollars is the cost of the carrots for the restaurant for the day
