Problema Solution
You are baking 48 loaves of cranberry bread. it takes 1/2 cup of dried cranberries to make one loaf of cranberry bread. if cranberries cost $1.75 per pound and one cup of cranberries weighs 6 ounces, what will the cranberries cost for the 48 loaves of bread
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it takes 1/2 cup of dried cranberries to make 1 loaf of cranberry bread
48*(1/2) = 24 cups of dried cranberries to make 48*1 = 48 loafs of cranberry bread
1 cup = 6 oz
24 cups = 24*6 oz
24 cups = 144 oz
1 oz = 0.0625 lbs
24 cups = 144*0.0625 lbs
24 cups = 9 lbs
cranberries cost $1.75 per lbs
thus 9 lbs of cranberries will cost 9*1.75 = $15.75