SOLUTION: A boutique sells blouses and purses. The blouses cost $34 each and the purses cost $44 each. On a certain day the store sells twice as many blouses as purses. If the store sold $56

Question 1133791: A boutique sells blouses and purses. The blouses cost $34 each and the purses cost $44 each. On a certain day the store sells twice as many blouses as purses. If the store sold $560 worth of these two items on that day, how many of each were sold?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
very simple application for system of two linear equations in two variables.

b, blouses
p, purses

Maybe you can see how to set this up in just one single variable!
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