SOLUTION: Workers earn $.25 an hour to pick apples. They can pick 2.5 bushels of apples in an hour. There are 126 apples in a bushel. It takes 36 apples to make one gallon of apple juice. Ho

Question 1178115: Workers earn $.25 an hour to pick apples. They can pick 2.5 bushels of apples in an hour. There are 126 apples in a bushel. It takes 36 apples to make one gallon of apple juice. How much does it cost to make this gallon of apple juice?
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Workers earn $.25 an hour to pick apples.
They can pick 2.5 bushels of apples in an hour. There are 126 apples in a bushel.
Total apples picked = 2.5 * 126=315 apples
It takes 36 apples to make one gallon of apple juice.
315/36 =8.75 gallons
How much does it cost to make this gallon of apple juice?
2.85 cents/gallon
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