SOLUTION: Your family likes to go to baseball games. At one game, your family bought 5 soft drinks and 5 hot dogs for $22.50. At the next game your family attended, they bought 4 soft drinks

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Question 1171921: Your family likes to go to baseball games. At one game, your family bought 5 soft drinks and 5 hot dogs for $22.50. At the next game your family attended, they bought 4 soft drinks and 3 hot dogs for $14.50. What is the cost of one soft drink and one hot dog?
Let s = the cost of one soft drink
Let h = the cost of one hot dog

Write a system of equations modeling the situation described above.
     

Solve the system for the cost of one soft drink + one hot dog. (You will have to add your solutions together for this one.) Show your work.
Found 3 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!




ONE softdrink AND ONE hot dog, together cost $4.50.
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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In order for to find the cost of 1 soft drink + one hot dog (the sum of the two items, as it is presented in your post),

I do not need to add the equations.

What I need for it, is to divide 22.50 dollars by five.

Your instruction is INCORRECT in this part.



Answer by MathTherapy(10552)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Your family likes to go to baseball games. At one game, your family bought 5 soft drinks and 5 hot dogs for $22.50. At the next game your family attended, they bought 4 soft drinks and 3 hot dogs for $14.50. What is the cost of one soft drink and one hot dog?
Let s = the cost of one soft drink
Let h = the cost of one hot dog

Write a system of equations modeling the situation described above.
     

Solve the system for the cost of one soft drink + one hot dog. (You will have to add your solutions together for this one.) Show your work.






That's how SIMPLE this is!! 

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