Ella wants to buy apples and strawberries to make a fruit tart. Apples cost 3.50 per pound and strawberries cost 3.75 per pound. How many pounds of fruit does she buy if she buys 0.5 pounds of apples and 1.5 pounds of strawberries? How many pounds of fruit does she buy if she buys x pounds of apples and y pounds of strawberries?

2 pounds of fruit

x+y pounds of fruits

Step-by-step explanation:

The first questions asks for total amount of fruit she bought. Before that, it stated, she bought .5 pound and 1.5 pounds of apples and strawberries. The equation would be 1.5+.5= 2. The next question is asking for the total amount of fruits if X was total pounds of apples while Y was total pound of strawberry. It is again asking for the total amount so the equation would be x+y= total.