SOLUTION: A delivery truck is transporting boxes of two sizes: large and small. The large boxes weigh 50 pounds each and the small boxes weigh 35 pounds. There are 110 boxes in all. If the t

Question 1070046: A delivery truck is transporting boxes of two sizes: large and small. The large boxes weigh 50 pounds each and the small boxes weigh 35 pounds. There are 110 boxes in all. If the truck is carrying a total of 4600 pounds in boxes how many of each type of box is it carrying?
Number of large boxes:
Number of Small boxes:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Multiply eq. 1 by 10 and subtract it from eq. 2,

Now solve for S, then use either equation to solve for L.

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