SOLUTION: I've worked hours on this question and can't figure it out. Can u please help? Thanks! *In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using

Question 293034: I've worked hours on this question and can't figure it out. Can u please help? Thanks!
*In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using a smaller type, a page contains 2,400 words. The article is allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller type? ___________
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let S be the number of smaller font pages and L be the number of larget font pages.
There are 21 total pages.
1.
The number of words per page is 1800 and 2400 respectively. The total number of words is 48000.

2.
Now use eq. 1 to get S in terms of L and substitute,

.
.
.

Then from eq. 1,

17 small font pages and 4 large font pages.
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