Kim bought a total of 32 cookies. Each cookie costs $.65, including tax. Of the cookies she bought, 3/8 were lemon cookies. What was the total cost of only the lemon cookies?

that would be 3/8 of the total, or

(3/8)(32)(0.65)

To find the total cost of only the lemon cookies, we first need to determine the number of lemon cookies Kim bought.

Given that 3/8 of the cookies were lemon cookies, we can set up the following equation: (3/8) * 32 = x, where x represents the number of lemon cookies.

To solve for x, we multiply 3/8 by 32: (3/8) * 32 = (3 * 32) / 8 = 96 / 8 = 12.

Hence, Kim bought 12 lemon cookies.

Now that we know the number of lemon cookies she bought, we can proceed to calculate the total cost of only the lemon cookies.

Each cookie costs $0.65, including tax. Therefore, to find the total cost of the lemon cookies, we multiply the cost per cookie by the number of lemon cookies:

Total cost = cost per cookie * number of cookies
Total cost = $0.65 * 12 = $7.80.

Thus, the total cost of only the lemon cookies is $7.80.