Question

A fruit market is selling oranges in a 5 lb bag for $6 and a 10 lb bag for $10.?
you spend a total of $68 and buy a total of 8 bags of oranges. Using a matrix how many 5 lb bags and 10 lb bags of oranges did you bu? how many total pounds of oranges did you buy?

Answer 1

Using a matrix....give me a sec

Answer 2

Ok.

Answer 3

@zepdrix got any idea?

Answer 4

Nope all I have is 5 lbs=6

Answer 5

I was asking zepdrix, he's my go to guy when I can't remember or don't know.

Answer 6

Oh sorry I'm new at this

Answer 7

Well, it's been a while since I've done matrices

Answer 8

I don't even remember matrices being word problems

Answer 9

Ok, so I'm gonna go with \[\left[\begin{matrix}5 & 6 \\ 10 & 10\end{matrix}\right]\]

Answer 10

but I have no clue what to do after that.

Answer 11

How did u get that

Answer 12

lbs $
lbs $

Answer 13

Ohh

Answer 14

I mean, I know that the answer is 3 of the $6 and 5 of the $10

Answer 15

so you got 65 pounds

Answer 16

Well thanks for trying to help