Turkey problem!!!

We have been doing a problem with a turkey dinner.  The first problem was each pound cost $1.25 and it was 24 pounds. How many dollars do they spend.  People solved the problems in different ways.  Bradley and I did $1.25 x 3 = $3.75 + 25 cents = $4.00 + $1.00 = $5.00 so we did skip count till we got to 24 and the anwer is $30.00. Then we did a problem which is the same thing but an apple and carrot. The apple and carrot problem was $1.60 for the apple and $1.10 for the carrot.