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Alaina needs to sell 225 boxes in order to be the top seller. She sells thin mints and samoas to all of her customers for a total of $628.00
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Alaina needs to sell 225 boxes in order to be the top seller. She sells thin mints and samoas to all of her customers for a total of $628.00 in sales. The thin mints sell for $3.00 each and the samoas sell for $2.50 each. Which system of equations below could be used to find how many boxes of thin mints and samoas were sold?
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Answer:
94 boxes of samoas
131 boxes of thin mints
Step-by-step explanation:
m=mints
s=samoas
s+m=225 m=225-s
s(2.5)+m(3)=628
2.5s+3m=628
substitute for m
2.5s+3(225-s)=628
2.5s+675-3s=628
reduce
-0.5s=-47
s=94
m=131