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A homemade lip balm consists of coconut oil and beeswax. Coconut oil costs $0.50 per ounce and beeswax costs $2.00 per ounce. If 6 ounces of coconut oil and 5 ounces of beeswax are used to create the lip balm mixture, which values represent a and b in the table?

what does a and b equal

a = $

b = $

A homemade lip balm consists of coconut oil and beeswax. Coconut oil costs $0.50 per-example-1

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A) represents the total cost of 6 ounces of Coconut oil @ $3.00
And B) represents the total cost of 5 beeswax at $10
User Eniss
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Let

a--------> the total cost in dollars of
6 ounces of coconut oil

b--------> the total cost in dollars of
5 ounces of beeswax

we know that


a=0.50 (\$)/(ounce)*6=\$3


b=2.00 (\$)/(ounce)*5=\$10

therefore

the answer is

the total cost in dollars of
6 ounces of coconut oil is
a=\$3

the total cost in dollars of
5 ounces o
fbeeswax is
b=\$10

User GlaceCelery
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