Question

16. At a grocery store, salted peanuts in the shell cost 30 cents per ounce. Is $5.00 enough money to buy 1 pound of peanuts? If it is, what amount of money will be left over? UNIT 8 LESSON 6

Answer 1

Yes, with .20 remaining.

Answer 2

Yes. There is sixteen ounces in a pound. At thirty cents an ounce, you can buy a pound for $4.80. That also leaves $.20.