Last month a bakery sold a total of 3,500 cookies and cupcakes. They sold cookies for $0.75 each and cupcakes for $2 each. If the total sales last month was $4,500, how many cookies and how many cupcakes did the bakery sell?
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Last month a bakery sold a total of 3,500 cookies and cupcakes. They sold cookies for $0.75 each and cupcakes for $2 each. If the total sales last month was $4,500, how many cookies and how many cupcakes did the bakery sell?
Answer:
Number of cookies sold is 2000 and number of cupcakes sold is 1500
Step-by-step explanation:
Let number of cookies be
and number of cupcakes be
so
Cost of one cookie is $0.75
Cost of one cupcake is $2
Number of cookies sold is 2000 and number of cupcakes sold is 1500.