SOLUTION: You have 6 trucks and 5 cars. Each truck pays twice as much as each car to use the toll. At the end of the day $12.75 was collected. Write the algebraic equation and solve the prob

Question 301808: You have 6 trucks and 5 cars. Each truck pays twice as much as each car to use the toll. At the end of the day $12.75 was collected. Write the algebraic equation and solve the problem.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = toll for 1 car
Let = toll for 1 truck
given:

solve for , then
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