SOLUTION: Hot chocolate sells for $.75 and coffee sells for $.50 at a football game. If they sold $200 worth of hot drinks and used 295 cups, how many of each drink did they sell?

Question 297444: Hot chocolate sells for $.75 and coffee sells for $.50 at a football game. If they sold $200 worth of hot drinks and used 295 cups, how many of each drink did they sell?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of hot chocolates sold
Let = number of coffees sold
given:
(1)
(2)
Multiply both sides of (1) by
and subtract from (2)

and, since

They sold 210 hot chocolates and 85 coffees
check:
(2)
(2)

OK

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