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How much did potatoes cost per pound?

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Shopping can present a terrible dilemma, the new couple discovered. Three pounds of potatoes and two pounds of eggplants cost $2.25. Or they could just buy eggplants for the same amount of money and make a casserole out of all those eggplants. But potatoes are cheaper than eggplants.

How much did potatoes cost per pound?

posted Mar 10, 2015 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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Potatoes are .25 cents

Eggplants are .75 cents

answer May 11, 2015 by Nikhil Pandey



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