SOLUTION: the price of one brand of shoe is $5 more than another brand. if the prices of two pairs of shoes add to $230,how much does each pair cost?
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Question 160942: the price of one brand of shoe is $5 more than another brand. if the prices of two pairs of shoes add to $230,how much does each pair cost?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the price of the shoes A and B respectively.
1.
2.
Use eq. 1 in eq. 2 and solve for A.
2.
From eq.1,
Pair A cost $112.50 and pair B costs $117.50.
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