Question

at a local grocery store apples cost $0.50 each and bananas cost $0.30 each. the expression 0.50x+0.30y can be used to find the cost of buying some apples and bananas. 1. interpret what the x and y represents in context. what does each term represent? what do each of the coefficients represent?

Answer 1

x represents number of apples and y represents number of bananas, and so because each apple costs 0.50 you would place 0.50 next to x and each banana costs 0.30, place 0.30 next to y

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Answer 2

they each represent how much you are paying.

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