SOLUTION: kim and mark are selling fruit for a school fundraiser. Customers can oranges and apples. Kim sold 14 boxes of oranges and 3 boxes of of apples for a total of $196. Mark sold 2 box

Question 1190302: kim and mark are selling fruit for a school fundraiser. Customers can oranges and apples. Kim sold 14 boxes of oranges and 3 boxes of of apples for a total of $196. Mark sold 2 boxes of oranges and 10 boxes of apples for a total of $162. Which of these system of equations could be used to solve this problem?
a. {14o + 3a = 162 b. { 3o + 14a = 196
{ 2o + 10a = 196 { 10o + 2a = 162
Found 2 solutions by MathLover1, ikleyn:
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

if Kim sold boxes of oranges and boxes of of apples for a total of $, we have

if Mark sold boxes of oranges and boxes of apples for a total of $, we have

so, the system is

Answer by ikleyn(52794) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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No one of the two given systems of equations can be used to solve the problem.

My deepest condolences to students who obtain such problems from their teachers.

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