SOLUTION: Ernie and Bert are selling cookie dough for a school fundraiser. Customers can buy packages of chocolate chip cookie dough and packages of sugar cookie dough. Ernie sold 8 packag

Question 1167272: Ernie and Bert are selling cookie dough for a school fundraiser. Customers can buy packages of chocolate chip cookie dough and packages of sugar cookie dough. Ernie sold 8 packages of chocolate chip cookie dough and 12 packages of sugar cookie dough for a total of $364. Bert sold 1 package of chocolate chip cookie dough and 4 packages of sugar cookie dough for a total of $93. Find the cost of each one of the packages.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

DOUGH           PRICE      QUANTITY       QUANTITY
                            Ernie         Bert     
Choc. Chip       c           8              1
Sugar            z          12              4
REVENUE                    364             93

(Not the only way but) The first equation, for Ernie, should be simplified first.

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