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A nursery has $20,000 of inventory in dogwood trees and red maple trees. The profit on a dogwood tree is 25% and the profit on a red
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: Please help me solve this word problem:
A nursery has $20,000 of inventory in dogwood trees and red maple trees. The profit on a dogwood tree is 25% and the profit on a red maple is 17%. The profit for the entire stock is 20%. How much was invested in each type of tree?
This question is from textbook Algebra and Trigonometry
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Name your variables.
D-dogwood investment
R-red maple investment
1.
2.
Use eq. 1 to solve for D in terms of R and substitute into eq. 2,
1.
2.
From eq. 1,
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