SOLUTION: You have $12 to buy tomato and pepper seedlings for your garden. The tomato seedlings cost $4.00 and the pepper seedlings cost $2.00. Write an equation in the standard from the re

Question 356182: You have $12 to buy tomato and pepper seedlings for your garden. The tomato seedlings cost $4.00 and the pepper seedlings cost $2.00. Write an equation in the standard from the represents the different amounts of tomato and pepper seedlings that you could buy.
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Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You have $12 to buy tomato and pepper seedlings for your garden. The tomato seedlings cost $4.00 and the pepper seedlings cost $2.00. Write an equation in the standard from the represents the different amounts of tomato and pepper seedlings that you could buy.
let tomato seedlings quantity be x
and pepper seedlings be y
..
4x+2y=12
...
m.ananth@hotmail.ca
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let represent the number of tomato seedlings. Let represent the number of pepper seedlings.

With the additional restriction that and are non-negative integers.

Given that, you could buy

0 tomatos, 6 peppers

1 tomato, 4 peppers

2 tomatos, 2 peppers

3 tomatos, 0 peppers.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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