Question

In order to make chocolate peanut butter cups, you need to purchase chocolate and peanut butter. You have a total of $10 to spend on ingredients. Chocolate costs $5 per pound and peanut butter costs $2 per pound. Create a linear model to represent how many pounds of ingredients you can purchase.
Let x represents the number of pounds of chocolate, and y represents the number of pounds of peanut butter.

Answer 1

Answer:

1 pound of chocolate

2 1/2 pounds of peanut butter

Step-by-step explanation:

$5 + $2 + $2 + $1 (half a pound of peanut butter) = $10

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