SOLUTION: please help me solve this equation Martha buys x apples and some oranges. She buys 3 more oranges than apples. Each apple costs .40 cents and each orange costs .50 cents. fin

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Question 893483: please help me solve this equation
Martha buys x apples and some oranges. She buys 3 more oranges than apples.
Each apple costs .40 cents and each orange costs .50 cents. find, as simply as possible in terms of x, an expression for the total cost in dollars of the fruit that Martha buys.
apples=x
oranges= x + 3
Answer by rfer(16322) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
0.40x+0.50(x+3)=