Im not to sure how to work this problem out.....?

Question

Mr. Brown went grocery shopping to buy meat for his annual office picnic. He bought 7 34 pounds of hamburger, 17.85 pounds of chicken, and 612 pounds of steak. How

many pounds of meat did Mr. Brown buy?

Answer 1

Is chicken technically meat??  :-P

Just add them all together.

Answer 2

is it 734, or 7.34?? it makes a difference. But to solve it i think u just add up the numbers.... no? but really, why do we care how much meat a man buys??