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?

a = $

b = $

Answer 1

a/3.00
b/10.00

it is a quit simple question all you had to do is multiply the ounces to the cost per ounce.

Answer 2

a = $0.50 x 6 = $3.00
b = $2.00 x 5 = $10.00