SOLUTION: You are selling Gertrude Hawk bars to raise money for the Math Club . Peanut butter bars cost $1.50 and crispy bars cost $1.25. All together you made $147.25 by selling 102 candy b

Question 1169967: You are selling Gertrude Hawk bars to raise money for the Math Club . Peanut butter bars cost $1.50 and crispy bars cost $1.25. All together you made $147.25 by selling 102 candy bars. How many of each kind did you sell?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Peanut butter bars cost $1.50 and crispy bars cost $1.25. All together you made $147.25 by selling 102 candy bars.
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p, how many peanut butter bars sold
Q, total number of candy bars sold
Q-p, how many crispy bars sold
R, the sales revenue for all the Q bars sold
L, price for crispy bars
H, price for peanut butter bars

------quantity of the peanut bars sold

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H=1.5 dollars per bar
L-1.25 dollars per bar
Q=102 candy bars
R=147.25 dollars

Substitute those into the formula for p.

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