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SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!

A store allows customers to fill their own bags of candy. Troy decides he only wants chocolate-covered pretzels and gumdrops. Chocolate-covered pretzels sell for $0.89 per pound, and gumdrops sell for $0.65 per pound. Troy’s bag weighs 1.8 pounds and it cost $1.29.



A. 0.5 pounds of pretzels; 1.3 pounds of gumdrops
B. 0.9 pounds of pretzels; 0.9 pounds of gumdrops
C. 1.3 pounds of pretzels; 0.5 pounds of gumdrops
D. 0.8 pounds of pretzels; 1 pound of gumdrops

User Maccaroo
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just plug in the prices of the candy .5 times the price of pretzels and 1.3 times the price of gumdrops
User Muriel
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