SOLUTION: Your math teacher tells you that next week's test is worth 100 points and contains 38 problems. Each problem is worh either 5 points or 2 points. Because you are studying systems o

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: Your math teacher tells you that next week's test is worth 100 points and contains 38 problems. Each problem is worh either 5 points or 2 points. Because you are studying systems of linear equations, your teacher says that for extra credit you can figure out how many problems of each value are on the test. How many of each value are there?This question is from textbook Algebra 1

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Answer by josmiceli(6784) (Show Source):
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There are 8 questions worth 5 points and 30 questions worth 2 points
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Answer by stanbon(48545) (Show Source):
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Your math teacher tells you that next week's test is worth 100 points and contains 38 problems. Each problem is worth either 5 points or 2 points. Because you are studying systems of linear equations, your teacher says that for extra credit you can figure out how many problems of each value are on the test. How many of each value are there?
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Let # of 5 point questions be "x" ; # of points available is 5x
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# of 2 point questions is "38-x" ; # of points available is 2(38-x)=76-2x
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EQUATION:
5x + 76 -2x = 100
3x = 24
x = 8 (# of 5-point questions)
38-x = 30 (# of 2-point questions)
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Cheers,
Stan H.