Question

The store is selling lemons at $0.52 each. Each lemon yields about 2 tablespoons of juice. How much will it cost to buy enough lemons to make four 9-inch lemon pies, each requiring half a cup of lemon juice?

Answer 1

It will cost $8.32 to make four 9-inch lemon pies.

Since 16 tablespoons go into one cup, 8 tablespoons will go into half a cup. This means that it will take 4 lemons to make 1 pie, therefore you multiply $0.52 by 4, which equals to $2.08.

One lemon pie costs $2.08, so you just multiply that by 4 again to get the final answer of $8.32.