SOLUTION: Please help me solve this problem: Pencils cost $6 per carton and erasers cost $3 per carton. If an order comes in for a total of 100 cartons for $360, what was the specific numbe

Question 484882: Please help me solve this problem: Pencils cost $6 per carton and erasers cost $3 per carton. If an order comes in for a total of 100 cartons for $360, what was the specific number of cartons of pencils?
I didn't think i had all of the information to solve such as how many cartons of erasers were ordered.
Answer by Tatiana_Stebko(1539) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x cartons of pencils
an order comes in for a total of 100 cartons, so there was cartons of erasers
Price for all is

cartons of pencils
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