SOLUTION: A department store sold 48 48 shirts one day. All short-sleeved shirts cost $15.00 $ 15.00 each and all long-sleeved shirts cost $23.00 $ 23.00 each. Total receipts for

Question 1109552: A department store sold 48
48
shirts one day. All short-sleeved shirts cost $15.00
$
15.00
each and all long-sleeved shirts cost $23.00
$
23.00
each. Total receipts for the day were $888.00
$
888.00
. How many of each kind of shirt were sold?
Answer by jorel1380(3719) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let s be all short-sleeved shirts sold, and l be all long-sleeved shirts sold. Then:
s+l=48 and
15s+23l=888
Solve for s and l
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