Question

23. Mr. Gomez bought fruit to make fruit salad. He bought 2 poundsFruit of apples and spent $4.50 on apples and oranges. Write and solve an equation to determine the number of pounds of oranges Mr. Gomez bought.

Answer 1

Equation: $1.20 x 4 = $4.80. This means that Mr. Gomez could've bought 2 of each fruit (because they cost the same)

Answer 2

(2*1.20)+(X*1.20)=4.50

X=1.75

Explanation:

The first term of the equation represents the amount of money Mr. Gomez spent in apples, knowing he bought 2 pounds of apples and each pound costs 1.2. In total he spent 2.4 in apples.

The second term represents what he spent in oranges. We do not know how much oranges he bought, represented by X, but what we do know is the price per pound, what is 1.2

The total he spent between oranges and apples is 4.5

Solving the equation:

(2*1.20)+(X*1.20)=4.50

2.4+(X*1.2)=4.5

X*1.2=4.5-2.4

X*1.2=2.1

X=2.1/1.2

X=1.75