Question

You are sent to the store to buy sliced meat for a party. You are told to get roast beef and turkey, and you are given $30. Roast beef is $4.29/lb and turkey is $3.99/lb. Write an equation in standard form to relate to the pounds of each kind of meat you could buy at the store with $30.

Answer 1

The expression related pounds of each kind of meat you could buy at the store with $30 is
`4.29x+3.99y =30`.

Explanation:

Given:

Total Money = $30

Cost of Roast beef per pound = $4.29

Cost of Turkey per pound = $3.99

Let Number of pounds Roast beef be x

Also Let Number of pounds Turkey be y

Hence the expression related to to the pounds of each kind of meat you could buy at the store with $30 is given by.

Total Money is equal to Cost of Roast beef per pound multiplied by Number of pounds Roast beef plus Cost of Turkey per pound multiplied by Number of pounds Turkey.

The mathematical form for above statement can be written as;

`4.29x+3.99y =30`

Hence the expression related pounds of each kind of meat you could buy at the store with $30 is
`4.29x+3.99y =30`.