SOLUTION: the grocery store sells apples for $4.25 a pound and grapes for $2.25 a pound. Write an equation for the weights of apples, a, and grapes, g, that a customer could buy with $18.
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Question 1063555: the grocery store sells apples for $4.25 a pound and grapes for $2.25 a pound. Write an equation for the weights of apples, a, and grapes, g, that a customer could buy with $18. Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 4.25a +2.25g< = 18.00
This could for example be 4 pounds of apples ($17) and (4/9) pound of grapes ($1).
It could also be 7 pounds of grapes ($15.75) and (9/17) pounds of apples ($2.25).
