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A candy store sells chocolate for $7.70 per pound. The piece you want to buy weighs 0.11 pound. How much will it cost, to the nearest cent? (Neglect sales tax.)

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The price is $7.70 a pound

You want to buy 0.11 pounds

Use cross multiplication to calculate how much you'll pay:

1pound_____$7.70

0.11pound___$X

[tex]x=\frac{0.11\cdot7.70}{1}=0.847[/tex]

You'll pay ≅ $0.85. for 0.11pounds of chocolate.

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