Question

A health food store makes trail mix using dried fruit and nuts. The cost of the dried fruit is $2.50 per

Answer 1

Answer:

Option A.

Step-by-step explanation:

The total cost of the mix is the sum of the cost for dried fruit and nuts.

Recognizing the first term has a coefficient of 2.5, which is the cost of the dried fruit per pound, the term 2.5x represent the total cost of the dried fruit, and x be the number of pound of dried fruit.

Answer 2

Answer:

cost of dried fruit per pound=2.5 $/pound

cost of nuts per pound =2 $/pound

total cost=225$ =cost of dried fruit +total cost of nuts

To find the cost of dried fruit we need to multiply cost of dried fruit per pound and the number of bounds hence 2.5 x where x is the number of bounds

which is the total cost of dried fruit and consequently 2y is total cost of nuts where y is the weight of nuts in pound

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