Angelo bought apples and bananas at the fruit salad. He bought 20 pieces of fruit and spent $11.50. Apples cost $0.50 and bananas cost $0.75 each. Write a system of equations to model the problem. (Hint: One equation will represent the number of pieces of fruit. A second equation will represent the money spent on the fruit.)

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Rayna

3 April, 03:18

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Bruno Chavez · Answer 1

Since y=6, we can plug it in the second equation so it would be x+6=20 which means x=14, you can comment if anything confuses you