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A pound of chocolate costs 8 dollars. Deon buys p pounds. Write an equation to represent the total cost c that Deon pays.

User Tuukka Mustonen
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Answer:

8p = c

Explanation:

User Prasanta Biswas
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let total cost = c
let pounds bought = p

the total cost is going to be $8 times how many pounds he bought

cost = 8 * pounds

then just replace the words with our variables

c = 8p
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