SOLUTION: You buy a total of 50 turkey burgers and veggie burgers for $90. You pay $2 per turkey burger and $1.50 per veggie burger. Write and solve a system of linear equations to find the

Question 1107402: You buy a total of 50 turkey burgers and veggie burgers for $90. You pay $2 per turkey burger and $1.50 per veggie burger. Write and solve a system of linear equations to find the number of turkey burgers and veggie burgers you can buy.
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, BumbleStar:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
t, turkey burgers
v, veggie burgers

You can solve the system in whatever way you want or need.
Answer by BumbleStar(7) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let t be the quantity of turkey burgers.
Let v be the quantity of veggie burgers.
In total, there are 50 burgers.

Each turkey burger costs $2.00 and each veggie burger costs $1.50.
This means that the cost of one turkey burger is 2t and the cost of one veggie burger is 1.5t

Solve from here.

Solved by pluggable solver: Linear System solver (using determinant)

Solve:

Any system of equations:

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or

(t=30, v=20}

30 turkey burgers, 20 veggie burgers.
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