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Lydia buys peanut butter in bulk for $0.20 an ounce. How much does 18 ounces of the peanut butter cost? ​

User Pribeiro
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Answer:

3.6 dollars

Explanation:

Lets go over what we know:

Each ounce of penut butter cost 0.2$, or 1/5$

We need 18 ounces.

To solve this, lets multiply the cost per ounce by the amount of ounces:

0.2*18

Or

1/5*18

=

18/5

This can be simplfied into:

3 3/5

We know each 1/5 is 20 cents(0.2), so 3 cents would be 3*0.2 = 0.6:

3.6 dollars

So the answer is for 18 ounces, it cost 3.6 dollars.

Hope this helps!

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