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Ana and Katrina are buying fruit to bring to their book club meeting. Ana

buys 2.4 lb of oranges and 0.8 lb of cherries
. Katrina buys 1.8 lb of oranges
and 1.3 lb of cherries. Oranges cost r dollars per pound, and cherries costo
dollars per pound. Write an expression with exactly two terms for the total
cost of the fruit Ana and Katrina buy. Show your work.

PLEASE HURRYYY ITS DUE SOON

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Answer:

4.2r + 1.1

Explanation:

(2.4 + 1.8)r + (0.8 + 1.3)o

User Quantbuff
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4.2r + 1.1
Reason being is because
(2.4r+1.8r)+(0.8+1.3)
This is what you use because r represents oranges so once you put 2.4r and 1.8r they are like terms so you can add them and r will stay the same and 0.8 and 1.3 will be added and no variable will appear when you add them.
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