Question

Tony has $14 to buy apples and bananas for a fruit salad. apples cost $2 per pound and bananas cost $1 per pound. give two possible combinations of pounds of apples and bananas that tony can buy.

Answer 1

you could do 5 pounds of apples and 4 pounds of bananas and 4 pounds of apples and 5 pounds of bananas 

Answer 2

The inequality to describe the situation is; 2a + 1b <= 18.

The two possible combinations of pounds of apples and bananas that tony can buy.

Tony buys 7 apples and no banana

Tony buys 14 bananas and no apple.

Given that

Tony has $14 to buy apples and bananas for a fruit salad.

Apples cost $2 per pound and bananas cost $1 per pound.

We have to determine

The two possible combinations of pounds of apples and bananas that tony can buy.

According to the question

Tony has $14 to buy apples and bananas for a fruit salad.

Apples cost $2 per pound and bananas cost $1 per pound.

Let the number of apples bought be; a

Let the number of bananas bought be; b

Therefore, the inequality to describe the situation is;

$\rm 2a + 1b \leq 14$

This means that the cost of the total number of apples and bananas bought by Tony is; less or equal to $14.

Two possible combinations of pounds and apples that Tony can buy are;

• Tony buys 7 apples and no banana

• Tony buys 14 bananas and no apple.

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