Ounces, unless it's a giant cookie.
Ounces
Each pound equals 16 ounces. So the ten pound box equals 160 ounces. (10x16=160) To find the weight of each cookie, 160 ounces divided by 216 cookies equals .74 ounce. The answer is .74 or 74 hundredths of an ounce.
To convert ounces to pounds, you would divide the number of ounces by 16, since there are 16 ounces in 1 pound.
A pound is 16 ounces, so they are equal.
It would cost $1.40 per pound.
Ounces
There are 16 ounces (oz) in 1 imperial pound (lb). What is being weighed doesn't matter - a pound of anything will still contain 16 ounces.
Because in the US most things are weighed using the Avoirdupois System.
Mail is weighed at 16 ounces to each pound (avdp) in the US.
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A pound is a pound no matter what material is being weighed; they weigh the same. As long as the material is weighed in the same system, like Avoirdupois, 16 ounces of anything is a pound.
Each pound equals 16 ounces. So the ten pound box equals 160 ounces. (10x16=160) To find the weight of each cookie, 160 ounces divided by 216 cookies equals .74 ounce. The answer is .74 or 74 hundredths of an ounce.
No, a pound is 16 ounces. So half a pound would be 8 ounces.
1 pound = 16 ounces. You now have all the information required to answer this and similar questions.
Since a stove is quite a heavy object, it would be best measured using pounds. Ounces are smaller (1/16th of an imperial pound) and make less sense for weighing large objects.
Examining the question for some aspects of gold and meat: 1. A solid block of one Avoirdupois pound of each substance would not be the same size in area or volume. 2. They would be the same weight if both were weighed in Avoirdupois ounces or pounds. However gold is customarily weighed in Troy ounces/pounds which are slightly heavier than the equivalent Avoirdupois weight. 3. Marx in "Capital" would argue that one pound of gold could equal one pound of meat if the market accepts them as having similar value.
The ratio would be 1 pound = 16 ounces.