SOLUTION: A basketball concession stand sells sodas for $ 1.10 each and bags of popcorn for $ 0.70$ each. One​ night,32 more sodas were sold than bags of popcorn. If the concession sta
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Question 1068576: A basketball concession stand sells sodas for $ 1.10 each and bags of popcorn for $ 0.70$ each. One night,32 more sodas were sold than bags of popcorn. If the concession stand made $ 127 that night, how many sodas and how many bags of popcorn were sold?
The concession stand sold how many soda and how many bags of popcorn?
John works two jobs. As a security guard he earns $ 9.75$9.75 per hour. As a landscaper he earns $ 13.00$13.00 per hour. One week John worked a total of 3030 hours and earned $ 308.75 .$308.75. How many hours did he work at each job?
The number of hours John worked as a security guard is
how many hours and as a landscaper is
how mnay hours?
Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
soda: s
popcorn: p
s = p+32
1.10s+0.70p = 127
substitute for s;
1.10(p+32)+0.70p = 127
1.80p+35.20 = 127
1.80p = 91.80
p = 51 and:
s = p+32 = 51+32 = 83
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Check:
51*0.70 = 35.70
83*1.10 = 91.30
Total . . 127 Correct
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