A candy store sells different types of Candy by the ounce red snaps cost $.25 per ounce and the blue tarts cost $.30 per ounce. You decide to buy 8 ounces of candy to share with your friends. How much more expensive would it be to get a bag of blue tarts instead a a bag of red snaps.
To find out how much more expensive it would be to buy a bag of blue tarts instead of a bag of red snaps, we need to calculate the cost difference between the two.
The cost of 8 ounces of red snaps would be 8 * $0.25 = $<<8*0.25=2>>2.
The cost of 8 ounces of blue tarts would be 8 * $0.30 = $<<8*0.30=2.4>>2.4.
The difference in cost between a bag of blue tarts and a bag of red snaps would be $2.4 - $2 = $<<2.4-2=0.40>>0.40.
Therefore, it would be $0.40 more expensive to get a bag of blue tarts instead of a bag of red snaps.