SOLUTION: Kylie was buying pies at the store for her co-workers on Thanksgiving. She needs a total of 12 pies. The store sells pumpkin pies for $4 a pie and apple pies for $2 a pie. If Kylie

Question 1058466: Kylie was buying pies at the store for her co-workers on Thanksgiving. She needs a total of 12 pies. The store sells pumpkin pies for $4 a pie and apple pies for $2 a pie. If Kylie ended up spending $30 on pies alone, how many of each pie did she purchased?
1. Write and solve a systems of equations representing this situation.
2. If Kylie wanted to add two pecan pies to her order for $1 each and maintain the same total cost, how much of each pie does she end up getting?
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Let x represent the number of pumpkin pies that Kylie buys, and let y represent the number of apple pies.

The total number of pies purchased is x + y = 12

The total cost is 4x + 2y = 30

Solving the the first equation for y gives:

y = 12 - x

Substituting "12 - x" in place of y in the equation 4x + 2y = 30 gives:

4x + 2(12 - x) = 30

4x + 24 - 2x = 30

2x + 24 = 30

2x = 6

x = 3

Thus, she has purchased 3 pumpkin pies, and 12 - 3 = 9 apple pies.

If Kylie wishes to purchase two pecan pies at a cost of $1 each, that would add $2
to the total cost. Since Kylie wants to keep the same total price, the quantity of
pumpkin and apple pies must be reduced by $2. The only way to do this is to
remove one apple pie from the original order.

The new order would be 3 pumpkin pies, 8 apple pies, and 2 pecan pies.
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