SOLUTION: Dry Cleaners. Claudio, a banking vice-president, took 17 neckties to Milto Cleaners. The rate for non-silk ties is $3.25 per tie and for silk ties is $3.60 per tie. His total b

Question 329272: Dry Cleaners. Claudio, a banking vice-president, took
17 neckties to Milto Cleaners. The rate for non-silk ties
is $3.25 per tie and for silk ties is $3.60 per tie. His total
bill was $58.75. How many silk ties did he have dry
cleaned?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let S be the number of silk ties, N the number of non-silk ties.
1.
2.
From eq. 1,

Subsitute into eq. 2,

From eq. 1,

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