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Ruth is purchasing dried apricots and cherries to use in her homemade trail mix, which requires at least $235$ grams of fruit in total. Each dried apricot weighs $6$ grams and each dried cherry weighs $2$ grams.$\newline$Select the inequality in standard form that describes this situation. Use the given numbers and the following variables.$\newline$$x =$ the number of dried apricots$\newline$$y =$ the number of dried cherries$\newline$Choices:$\newline$(A) $2x + 6y \geq 235$$\newline$(B) $2 + x + 6 + y \geq 235$$\newline$(C) $6x + 2y \geq 235$$\newline$(D) $6 + x + 2 + y \geq 235$