Manuel bought 9 pounds of apples. He has eaten 3/4 of a pound so far and has $15 worth of apples left. Write and solve an equation to find the cost of the apples per pound to the nearest dollar. How much did the apples cost per pound?

Manuel bought pounds of apples and eat 3/4 of 1 pound
That is 0.75 pounds
Thus 9-0.75=8.25 pounds of apples left with him.
It is given that the cost of 25 pounds of Apple is dollar.
Let the cost of 1 pound of Apple be x.

8.25 multiply X=15

8.25x. 10
————. = ——
8.25. 8.25

X=10
——
8.25

X=1.818181

X=2

Then the cost of Apple is above two dollars per pound