Question

1.Use the information provided to answer Part A and Part B of the question.

Jenifer is making a fruit salad for the family picnic. She follows a recipe that mixes one part pineapple with two parts grapes and three parts cherries. Pineapple costs $2 per pound, grapes cost $3 per pound, and cherries cost $4 per pound.

Part A
Jenifer has $60 to spend on the fruit salad. Write an algebraic equation which models this situation and solve to find how many pounds of fruit salad she can make.

Answer 1

@Vocaloid

Answer 2

See, I can solve this, but I can't write out the equation for it xD

Answer 3

then use the draw

Answer 4

I will try

Answer 5

yusss

Answer 6

so you dont need to solve this, correct?

Answer 7

you do

Answer 8

but i can do that part

Answer 9

ah ok

Answer 10

So lets say x is the amount of pounds

Answer 11

ok

Answer 12

is there answer choices?

Answer 13

nope

Answer 14

Well I am required to ask you how do you think you get the equation

Answer 15

Ima go out and tell you the truth i can went to my school super late so im looking for online help to help me out so i have NO IDEA

Answer 16

idk where can came from

Answer 17

It seems like the equation may be as simple as 2x+3x+4x=60 but I am not 100% sure since I am doing 5 things at once. @Shadow what do you think?

Answer 18

there are more parts to it and i really dont understand this crap *^*

Answer 19

I am not sure about the equation for the record, what are the other parts?

Answer 20

Maybe @dude

Answer 21

Hold on

Answer 22

Part B
Jenifer's sister gave her a different recipe which calls for her to mix seven parts pineapple, four parts grapes, and one part cherries. If Jenifer follows her sister's recipe, how many pounds of fruit salad can she make for $60?

Answer 23

Well I need to be sure on the equation before we do that part but I believe shadow is afk so you might have a wait a bit I am sorry

Answer 24

ok