SOLUTION: Last night the basketball concession stand sold 175 items. The concession stand made $687.50 selling bags of popcorn for $5.00 each and boxes of candy for $2.50 each. Write your

Question 1170986: Last night the basketball concession stand sold 175 items. The concession stand made $687.50 selling bags of popcorn for $5.00 each and boxes of candy for $2.50 each.
Write your answer as equation

Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, greenestamps:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
p bags of popcorn
c boxes of candy

To solve, try multiplying the revenue equation by to show . You can use the system to eliminate c,...
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let x be the number of boxes of candy sold.
Then (175-x) is the number of boxes of popcorn sold (because the total number of items sold was 175).

The total cost of the items, at $2.50 for each box of candy and $5 for each bag of popcorn, was $687.50:

It sounds as if an equation is what you wanted, so I'll end my response there.

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