SOLUTION: At Joe′s café, one cup of coffee and three doughnuts cost $4.20, and two cups of coffee and two doughnuts cost $4.80. What is the cost for one doughnut? What is the cost for

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Question 1037308: At Joe′s café, one cup of coffee and three doughnuts cost $4.20, and two cups of coffee and two doughnuts cost $4.80. What is the cost for one doughnut? What is the cost for one cup of coffee?

Answer by jorel555(1290)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let c=coffee, d=doughnuts:
1c+3d=4.20
2c+2d=4.80; So:
2c+6d=8.40
2c+2d=4.80
4d=3.60
d=.90
c=1.50
Coffee is $1.50 a cup, and doughnuts are $.90 each!!!!!!!!!

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