SOLUTION: 1. An art dealer sold two artworks for $1520 thereby making a profit of 25% on the first work and 10% profit on the other, whereas if he had approached any exhibition he would have

Question 84207: 1. An art dealer sold two artworks for $1520 thereby making a profit of 25% on the first work and 10% profit on the other, whereas if he had approached any exhibition he would have sold them together for $1535 with a profit of 10% on the first and 25% on the other artwork. Find the actual cost of each artwork.
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Assume first work costs x and second work costs y

Solved by pluggable solver: SOLVE linear system by SUBSTITUTION

Solve:
We'll use substitution. After moving 1.1*y to the right, we get:
, or . Substitute that
into another equation:
and simplify: So, we know that y=700. Since , x=600.

Answer: .

So, the first artwork costs 600 and the second artwork costs 700
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