Question

A homemade lip balm consists of coconut oil and beeswax. Coconut oil costs $0.50 per ounce and beeswax costs $2.00 per ounce. If 6 ounces of coconut oil and 5 ounces of beeswax are used to create the lip balm mixture, which values represent a and b in the table?
what does a and b equal

a = $

b = $

Answer 1

Let

a--------> the total cost in dollars of $6$ ounces of coconut oil

b--------> the total cost in dollars of $5$ ounces of beeswax

we know that

$a=0.50 \frac{\ }{ounce}*6=\ 3$

$b=2.00 \frac{\ }{ounce}*5=\ 10$

therefore

the answer is

the total cost in dollars of $6$ ounces of coconut oil is $a=\ 3$

the total cost in dollars of $5$ ounces ofbeeswax is $b=\ 10$

Answer 2

A) represents the total cost of 6 ounces of Coconut oil @ $3.00
And B) represents the total cost of 5 beeswax at $10