SOLUTION: A vegetable stand sells pumpkins for $5 each and squashes for $3 each . One day they sell 6 more squashes than pumpkins and their total was $98. Write a system of equations and sol

Question 1072731: A vegetable stand sells pumpkins for $5 each and squashes for $3 each . One day they sell 6 more squashes than pumpkins and their total was $98. Write a system of equations and solve to find how many pumpkins and squashes they sold.
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
s Squash
p Pumpkin

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

A vegetable stand sells pumpkins for $5 each and squashes for $3 each . One day they sell 6 more squashes than pumpkins and their total was $98. Write a system of equations and solve to find how many pumpkins and squashes they sold.

Let number of pumpkins and squashes sold, be P and S, respectively
The equations you want are:
Use SUBSTITUTION to solve for P, the number of pumpkins
Substitute value for P in eq (ii) to get value for S: the number of squashes.
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