Question

A candy store sells bags of fruit-flavored candy for $2 and chocolate candy for $3. Jasmine spends $54 on candy for her friends.

Write an equation in standard form that models how many bags of fruit-flavored candy, x, and chocolate candy, y, Jasmine purchased.

Answer 1

2x + 3y = $54

Explanation:

Standard Form ~ Ax + By = C

A and B in this case are just going to be numbers, they are just for substitution purposes.

Since x is fruit flavored candy and y is Chocolate, we can substituce the Fruit for A and Chocolate for B.

Now, we have 2x + 3y = C

The C is going to be the total cost. Therefore we have ~

2x + 3y = $54

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