Ava is purchasing dried apricots and cherries to use in her homemade trail mix, which requires at least 119 grams of fruit in total. Each dried apricot weighs 5 grams and each dried cherry weighs 2 grams.
Select the inequality in standard form that describes this situation. Use the given numbers and the following variables.
x = the number of dried apricots
y = the number of dried cherries
1 answer
The inequality in standard form that describes this situation is: 5x + 2y ≥ 119.