Pounds to ounces????real quick need help

In a certain grocery store, strawberries cost $5.28 per pound ( 5.28 dollars/lb ). What is the cost per ounce?

am i doing it wrong?? 5.28*16/1

one pound equals 16 ounces

You have it a bit backwards. When you start these kinds of conversions, you start with one unit over another. To start, you have Dollars/pound. You need to change the pounds to ounces. Think of it like a math problem. We don't want pounds in the end, so those units need to cancel each other out, so you put them on the opposite side of the line, so we would end up like this:

dollars/pound * pound/ounce = dollars/ounce

This works because the pound units cancel out. So:

5.28/1 * 1/16 = 5.28/16 or 0.33 dollars per ounce

An ounce is smaller than a lb, so the cost per ounce will be smaller than cost per lb.
The ratio is 16:1.
So answer is 5.28*1/16=$0.33

1 pound = 16 ounces.

so 5.28/16 or 0.33dollars/ounce is the answer

5.28 / 16

$5.28 / 16 = $0.33 per ounce.