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Three bananas and two pears cost 95p. Five bananas and three pears cost £1.51. What is the cost of ten bananas and ten pears?
greg1313 said:Using the given information we have
$$3b+2p=95$$
and
$$5b+3p=151$$
where $b$ represents the cost of bananas and $p$ represents the cost of pears. Do you see how the equations above were formed? Can you solve this system of equations?
greg1313 said:I suspect 151 should be 150.
You say "I have such a hard time creating an equation from written information in applications." Here is how I would think about it:RTCNTC said:Three bananas and two pears cost 95p. Five bananas and three pears cost £1.51. What is the cost of ten bananas and ten pears?
HallsofIvy said:(My sole criticism of greg1313's post is that he did not say that "p" represented the cost of a pear or that "b" represented the cost of a banana.)
RTCNTC said:Three bananas and two pears cost 95p. Five bananas and three pears cost £1.51. What is the cost of ten bananas and ten pears?
RTCNTC said:Ten Bananas = 10(0.15) or \$1.50.
Ten pears = 10(0.25) or \$2.50.
greg1313 said:So what is the "cost of ten bananas and ten pears"? "Cost" is singular. Use the monetary units stated in the problem. ;)
RTCNTC said:1. I do not know that particular monetary unit.
Yes, you do! The original problem, which you posted said "Five bananas and three pears cost £1.51"RTCNTC said:1. I do not know that particular monetary unit.
Ten bananas and ten pears cost £1.50+ £2.50 or £4.002. Ten bananas and ten pears = 1.50 + 2.50 or 4.00.