SOLUTION: The students are doing a fundraiser to help out a friend. They are selling chocolate and cookies for $3 and $2.50 respectively. The cookies were presold to 60 people. At least h

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Question 1157291: The students are doing a fundraiser to help out a friend. They are selling chocolate and cookies for $3 and $2.50 respectively. The cookies were presold to 60 people. At least how many of the chocolates must be sold to collect $255?
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

let the number of chocolate sold be and cookies
if they are selling chocolate for $ and cookies for $, they will earn
$
to collect $, they need to sell

if the cookies were pre-sold to people, means





At least of the chocolates must be sold


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