SOLUTION: You sell small and large candles at a craft fair. You collect $144 selling a total of 28 candles. How many of each type of candle did you sell?

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Question 1205281: You sell small and large candles at a craft fair. You collect $144 selling a total of 28 candles. How many of each type of candle did you sell?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Not complete. What more information?

Only enough information to do this:
x and y quantities of each size candle, expect to be whole numbers
C and G price of each small and large candle


If the unknown quantities are the x and y but known or given are C and G
then you can solve for x and y.
You could pick for integer values, but....

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