cherries cost $2/lb. Grapes cost $0.50/lb. You can spend no more than $2 on fruit, and you need at least 2 lb in all. Crea

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cherries cost $2/lb. Grapes cost $0.50/lb. You can spend no more than $2 on fruit, and you need at least 2 lb in all. Crea

te a graph showing the amount of each fruit you can buy.

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Sphinxa [80] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-15T09:44:06+03:00

Sphinxa [80]3 years ago

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Let g be the pounds of grapes and c be the pounds of cherries.

The graph will contain two inequalities:

One for weight:
c + g ≥ 2

and

One for cost:
2c + 0.5g ≤ 2

cherries cost ​$2​/lb. Grapes cost ​$0.50​/lb. You can spend no more than ​$2 on​ fruit, and you need at least 2 lb in all. Crea

cherries cost $2/lb. Grapes cost $0.50/lb. You can spend no more than $2 on fruit, and you need at least 2 lb in all. Crea