SOLUTION: 3) Peanut butter costs sixteen cents an ounce. Jelly costs two hundred twenty-four cents per pound. Hailey wants to make 1 1/2 pounds of peanut butter and jelly. If she wants the e

Question 766320: 3) Peanut butter costs sixteen cents an ounce. Jelly costs two hundred twenty-four cents per pound. Hailey wants to make 1 1/2 pounds of peanut butter and jelly. If she wants the entire mix to cost $3.52, how many pounds of jelly should she use?

8) Madison works at the supermarket. She put together a fruit cup of watermelon and cantaloupes, which weigh 8/15 pounds and cost a total of $0.34. If the fruit cup has one-third of a pound of watermelon, which costs fifty cents per pound, how much do cantaloupes cost per pound?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Fruit Cup watermelon & canteloupe:

8/15 pound fruit cup, cost $0.34
Watermelon is price $.50 per pound.

Given also pound is watermelon, then
pounds canteloupe is pounds canteloupe.

Find the price of the canteloupe. Call it c dollars per pound.

Account for cost: ,note also, the poundage of each melon is used here in reduced form.
Just find c.

dollars per pound.
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