Question

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health food store makes trail mix using dried fruits and nuts. The cost of the dried fruit is $2.50 per pound, in the cost of the nuts is $2 per pound. the total cost two makes a child makes is $225. if the total cost can be represented by the equation 2.5 x + 2y=225, what does the term 2.5 x represent?

Answer 1

cost of dried fruit per pound=2.5 $/pound
cost of nuts per pound =2 $/pound
total cost=225$ =cost of dried fruit +total cost of nuts
To find the cost of dried fruit we need to multiply cost of dried fruit per pound and the number of bounds hence 2.5 x where x is the number of bounds
which is the total cost of dried fruit and consequently 2y is total cost of nuts where y is the weight of nuts in pound