Question

At a local grocery store, apples cost $0.50 each and bananas cost $0.30 each. The expression 0.50x + 0.30y can be used to find the cost of buying some apples and bananas. 1. Interpret what the x and y represent in context. 2. What does each term represent? 3. What do each of the coefficients represent?

Answer 1

X and Y represents the amount of apples and bananas.

Coefficients represent the cost of the apples and bananas. Hope this helps :)