SOLUTION: Your company reached it sales goals for the year so you decide to buy dinner for your 45 employees. You find a restaurant that gives you a good deal on chicken dinners at $9 each,
Question 1042468: Your company reached it sales goals for the year so you decide to buy dinner for your 45 employees. You find a restaurant that gives you a good deal on chicken dinners at $9 each, salmon dinners at $12 each and steak dinners at $15 each. The number of chicken dinners you order is half the sum of salmon and steak dinners. If the total coast of all the meals is $525, how many of each type of dinner do you buy? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You need a total of 45 dinners
Let = number of chicken dinners ordered
Let = number of salmon dinners ordered
Let = number of steak dinners ordered
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15 chicken dinners were ordered
20 salmon dinners were ordered
10 steak dinners were ordered
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