SOLUTION: A recipe for peanut butter requires 12 pounds of butter and 10 pounds of peanuts. A pound of peanuts costs four times as much as a pound of butter. If the total cost of the batch
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Question 1027413: A recipe for peanut butter requires 12 pounds of butter and 10 pounds of peanuts. A pound of peanuts costs four times as much as a pound of butter. If the total cost of the batch of peanut butter is $91, how much does one pound of butter cost? Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! is the cost of 1 lb of butter is the cost of 1 lb of peanuts
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<--- Total cost <--- Cost comparison
Substituting, <--- Cost of 1 lb of butter
