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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 = $

A homemade lip balm consists of coconut oil and beeswax Coconut oil costs 050 per ounce and beeswax costs 200 per ounce If 6 ounces of coconut oil and 5 ounces class=

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

Let

a--------> the total cost in dollars of [tex]6[/tex] ounces of coconut oil

b--------> the total cost in dollars of [tex]5[/tex] ounces of beeswax

we know that

[tex]a=0.50 \frac{\$}{ounce}*6=\$3[/tex]

[tex]b=2.00 \frac{\$}{ounce}*5=\$10[/tex]

therefore

the answer is

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

the total cost in dollars of [tex]5[/tex] ounces ofbeeswax is [tex]b=\$10[/tex]