SOLUTION: Hello, I am having trouble understanding and solving this problem: You want to buy a bouquet of yellow roses and baby's breath for $16. The baby's breath costs $3.50 per bunch,a

Question 983649: Hello, I am having trouble understanding and solving this problem:
You want to buy a bouquet of yellow roses and baby's breath for $16. The baby's breath costs $3.50 per bunch,and the roses cost $2.50 each. You want one bunch of baby's breath and some roses for your bouquet. How many roses can you buy?
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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You want to buy a bouquet of yellow roses and baby's breath for $16. The baby's breath costs $3.50 per bunch,and the roses cost $2.50 each. You want one bunch of baby's breath and some roses for your bouquet. How many roses can you buy?
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Equation:
2.5r + 3.5 = 16
2.5r = 12.5
r = 5 (# of roses you can buy)
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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