SOLUTION: Two customers entered kim's bakery at the same time. One of them bought 7 bagels and 5 doughnuts and paid $7.35. The other customer bought 4 bagels and 5 doughnuts and paid $ 6.40.
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Question 1137776: Two customers entered kim's bakery at the same time. One of them bought 7 bagels and 5 doughnuts and paid $7.35. The other customer bought 4 bagels and 5 doughnuts and paid $ 6.40. What is the price of each bagel and each doughnut?
Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, josgarithmetic:
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The difference between the two purchases is 3 more bagels by the first customer, whose cost was $0.95 more.
That makes the cost of each bagel a number that is not a whole number; so at this point I conclude that the problem as you present it is faulty.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
b bagels
d doughnuts
Too strange a price value
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