SOLUTION: The classroom sold candy bars and pretzels with a total profit of $62.75. They made $.25 profit on each candy bar and .30 profit on each pretzel. How many candy bars and pretzels w

Question 334725: The classroom sold candy bars and pretzels with a total profit of $62.75. They made $.25 profit on each candy bar and .30 profit on each pretzel. How many candy bars and pretzels were each sold?
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Answer by nyc_function(2741) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
0.25x+0.30y= 62.75
x=251 y =0
x=239 y =10
x= 227 y =20
and so on....
For every increase of 10 in number of pretzels sold, there will be a decrease of 12 candy bars.
Shouldn't there be a total amount of Candy bars and pretzels?

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