SOLUTION: Each shirt costs $25 and each tie runs $10.If x is the number of shirts I can buy, then y is the number of ties I can buy too.Write an equation for the total cost of buying some sh
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Question 762533: Each shirt costs $25 and each tie runs $10.If x is the number of shirts I can buy, then y is the number of ties I can buy too.Write an equation for the total cost of buying some shirts and ties if I have $770 to spend.Write an equation given that I buy 4 times more shirts than ties. How many can I buy of each? Find out by solving a system.
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The cost of 
shirts is 
. The cost of 
ties is 
. The total amount spent has to be
If you buy four times as many shirts as ties, then
There is your system. I recommend you solve by substitution.
John
Egw to Beta kai to Sigma
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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