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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King 4 years 2021-09-02T02:53:23+00:00 1 Answers 4 views 0

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    2021-09-02T02:54:56+00:00

    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

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