SOLUTION: At a ice cream shop cones were $1.10 and sundaes were $2.35 in one day they sold a total of 172 cones and sundaes totaling $294.20 how many were cones? I have no idea how to so

Question 74308: At a ice cream shop cones were $1.10 and sundaes were $2.35 in one day they sold a total of 172 cones and sundaes totaling $294.20 how many were cones?
I have no idea how to solve this could you please help? Thank you
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let c=# of cones, s=# of sundaes
This is the equation of the 2 products sold which equals the total money made
Here is the total number of products sold which equals 172
Solve for s, plug this into

So the number of cones sold was 88. Use this to find the number of sundaes sold

So the number of sundaes sold was 84.

Here's another way to tackle the problem

Solved by pluggable solver: Linear System solver (using determinant)

Solve:

Any system of equations:

has solution

(c=88, s=84}

Which gives us the same answer, but it's just another way to solve the problem.
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