SOLUTION: At a furniture store, a chair was sold for Php 475 less than a side table and Php 278 more than a kitchen dish cabinet. The total cost of three items qas Php 4175. What is the sell

Question 1102064: At a furniture store, a chair was sold for Php 475 less than a side table and Php 278 more than a kitchen dish cabinet. The total cost of three items qas Php 4175. What is the selling price of the side table?
Found 3 solutions by josgarithmetic, Theo, richwmiller:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

ITEM COST chair c side table c+475 dish cabinet c-287

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The side table cost .
Answer by Theo(13342)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
At a furniture store, a chair was sold for Php 475 less than a side table and Php 278 more than a kitchen dish cabinet. The total cost of three items was Php 4175. What is the selling price of the side table?
c = price of chair
s = price of side table
k = price of kitchen dish cabinet.

c = s - 475
c = k + 278

solve for s to get s = c + 475
solve for k to get k = c - 278

c + s + k = 4175
replace s with c + 475
replace k with c - 278

formula becomes:

c + c + 475 + c - 278 = 4175

combine like terms to get:

3c + 197 = 4175

subtract 197 from both sides of the equation to get:

3c = 4175 - 197

combine like terms to get:

3c = 3978

solve for c to get:

c = 3978 / 3 = 1326

s = c + 475 = 1326 + 475 = 1801
k = c - 278 = 1326 - 278 = 1048

c + s + k = 1326 + 1801 + 1048 = 4175

Answer by richwmiller(17219)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It appears that tutor josgarithmetic inadvertently misread the 278 as 287 in "Php 278 more than a kitchen dish cabinet" which got his calculations off by a few php
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