To calculate Lily's total cost for the candy, we will find the cost for each type of candy based on the quantity she is buying and then sum them up.
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Cost of Chocolates:
- Quantity of Chocolates: 1.5 pounds
- Cost per pound: $4.70
- Total cost for chocolates: \(1.5 , \text{pounds} \times 4.70 , \text{dollars/pound} = 7.05 , \text{dollars}\)
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Cost of Mints:
- Quantity of Mints: 0.75 pounds
- Cost per pound: $0.96
- Total cost for mints: \(0.75 , \text{pounds} \times 0.96 , \text{dollars/pound} = 0.72 , \text{dollars}\)
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Cost of Lollipops:
- Quantity of Lollipops: 15
- Cost per pound: $0.07 (note: lollipops are not sold by the pound in the table, but we will consider the cost based on a unit price)
- Assuming we need the total weight instead of the cost per pound, we first need the weight equivalent of the 15 lollipops to make a reasonable assumption, but since it's not provided, we can treat it as negligible or find the total based on the combined costs.
Assuming the lollipops are directly priced without conversion here to a weight-based equation, we will just sum the other two values:
Total cost = Cost of Chocolates + Cost of Mints = \(7.05 + 0.72 = 7.77 \text{ dollars}\)
However, since we don't have a clear price for the lollipops, we'll just focus on the chocolates and mints. Historically, lollipops could be priced similarly based on price-per-pound.
Final calculation, Total Cost estimation, presuming say 15 lollipops could cost like candies might:
If we consider $0.07 * (let's say weight equivalent to 0.25 in similar transactions) or similar, still leads us selecting logical maximum cost scenarios.
On evaluation, *adding likely lollipop weight or just maintaining discrete careful selection would yield:
Therefore, let’s approximate towards least scenarios but primarily landmarking chocolates and mints as:
Total from listed choices:
Lily's total estimated costs:
- Potentially leans around $8.82, so
The answer is $8.82, touching logical market likely on candies included like lollipops potentially weighing lower based judged equivalent priced perspectives!