Maria buys a large bar of French soap that lasts her for 2 months. She spends $8.00 per bar of soap. If she wants to stock up for the entire year, how much will she spend on soap? Let's think first. Chain of thought:
1 bar of soap will last for 2 months and there are 12 months in 1 year so she needs 12 / 2 = 6 bars of soap. Each bar of soap is $8.00 and she needs 6 bars so that's a total of 8 * 6 = $48.00.
Therefore, the answer is 48.