Question

He cost of one pound of peanuts is 60% of the cost of one pound of cashews. If one pound of cashews costs $2, what is the cost of one pound of peanuts? What is the total cost of two pounds of peanuts and one pound of cashews?

The cost of one pound of peanuts is $. The total cost of two pounds of peanuts and one pound of cashews is

Answer 1

The answer is $1.2

Explanation:

How I got that answer is that I mulitplied 0.6*2 and that equals 1.2.

Answer 2

1.20 and 4.40

Explanation:

As the other girl said, the first answer is 1.2

Using that you can add that (1.20 + 1.20) to get the cost of two pounds of peanuts.

Then you add the $2 for the one pound of cashews.

Your final answer will be = 4.40