Question

At the beginning of the week, James stopped by a local grocery store to buy fruit. He bought five bananas and three pears at a total cost of $3.80. Later that week he went to the store again and bought another two bananas and four pears for $3.20. Assuming that prices did not change during the week, what was the price of one banana and one pear?

Answer 1

Let b and p be the cost for each banana and pear respectively. Solve the following for
p and b.
{5b + 3p = 3.8, 2b + 4p = 3.2}