Question

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 = $

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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 ofbeeswax is
`b=\$10`