SOLUTION: Five hockey pucks and three hockey sticks cost $23. Five hockey pucks and one hockey stick costs $20. How much does on hockey puck cost?

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Question 368846: Five hockey pucks and three hockey sticks cost $23. Five hockey pucks and one hockey stick costs $20. How much does on hockey puck cost?
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let P be the cost of pucks, S the cost of sticks.
1.
2.
Subtract eq. 2 from eq. 1,



Then from eq. 2,



Pucks cost $3.70 and sticks cost $1.50.
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