SOLUTION: Can you help with this? I'm lost! "Molly's custom kitchen supplies sells handmade forks and spoons. It costs the store $1.70 to buy the supplies to make a fork, and $1.30 to buy th

Question 1055067: Can you help with this? I'm lost! "Molly's custom kitchen supplies sells handmade forks and spoons. It costs the store $1.70 to buy the supplies to make a fork, and $1.30 to buy the supplies to make a spoon. The store sells forks for $5.60 and spoons for $5.40. Last April they spent $37.90 on materials for forks and spoons. They sold the finished products for a total of $147.20. How many forks, and how many spoons did they make last April?"
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the number of forks they made
Let = the number of spoons they made
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This is a little tough. I think I will
multiply both sides of (1) by
and both sides of (2) by
Then I'll subtract (2) from (1)
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and
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They made 7 forks and 20 spoons last April
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check:
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OK
You can check (2)

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