Brown rice costs $2 per pound and beans cost $1.60 per pound. Lin has $10 to spend on these items to make a large meal of beans and rice for a potluck dinner. Let b be the number of pounds of beans Lin buys and r be the number of pounds of rice she buys when she spends all her money on this meal.

Question

Brown rice costs $2 per pound and beans cost $1.60 per pound. Lin has $10 to spend on these items to make a large meal of beans and rice for a potluck dinner. Let b be the number of pounds of beans Lin buys and r be the number of pounds of rice she buys when she spends all her money on this meal.

a. Complete the equation relating the two variables.

r +
b =

Answer 1

10

b. Write an equation to represent the cost of the beans and rice.

2r + 1.6b = 10

Answer 2

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