SOLUTION: John wants to buy something for himself with his pocket money. He has a budget of $105 to spend on $25 T-shirts, $10 CDs, $5 books. He wants to buy 10 items and wants to buy as man

Question 1061462: John wants to buy something for himself with his pocket money. He has a budget of $105 to spend on $25 T-shirts, $10 CDs, $5 books. He wants to buy 10 items and wants to buy as many books as T-shirts and CDs combined.
Write a system of equations to help you solve this problem.
Show each of the matrices you set up to be able to solve this.
How many of each item should he buy?

Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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