Question

Chen is bringing fruit and veggies to serve at an afternoon meeting. He spends a total of $28.70 on 5 pints of cut veggies and 7 pints of cut fruit. The food cost is modeled by the equation , where v represents the cost of one pint of cut veggies and f represents the cost of one pint of cut fruit. If the cost of each pint of fruit is $2.85, what is the approximate price of a pint of veggies? (Round to the nearest cent.)

Answer 1

All right, so this seems pretty basic. What would be the first step?

Answer 2

What is your guess on this?

Answer 3

old question but will answer this so this can be closed
generally the total cost for some number (a) items costing (b) each is found by multiplying a * b

following this logic,
(cost of veggies per pint)(number of pints of veggies) + (cost of fruit per cup)(number of cups of fruit) = total cost
plugging in what we know from the problem
5v + 7($2.85) = $28.70
solve for v and round to the nearest 2 decimal places