Mathematics

Jaron Pierce

3 September, 16:21

Ben went to the farmer's market with $14.00, bought 2 pounds of cherries and still had enough money left to buy 3 pounds of apples. Tom went to the farmer's market and bought 6 pounds of apples and 4 pounds of cherries for $28.00.

14 - 2y = 3x, 6x + 4y = 28

The boys solved the equations to find the price per pound that they paid for cherries and found the solution 14 = 14. How should they interpret this result?

A: The price of 4 pounds of cherries is $14.00.

B: The price of 2 pounds of cherries is $14.00.

C: They made a math error when solving the equations, and should try a different solution method to find the price of the cherries.

D: The two equations describe the same line, so there is not enough information to determine the price per pound of cherries.