SOLUTION: You buy six bags of wild bird food to fill the feeders in your yard. Oyster shell grit sells for $4.00 a bag and sunflower seeds sell for $4.45 a bag. If you spend $25.80, how many

Question 478670: You buy six bags of wild bird food to fill the feeders in your yard. Oyster shell grit sells for $4.00 a bag and sunflower seeds sell for $4.45 a bag. If you spend $25.80, how many bags of each type are you buying? (hint: write a linear system and solve)
Answer by lwsshak3(11628) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You buy six bags of wild bird food to fill the feeders in your yard. Oyster shell grit sells for $4.00 a bag and sunflower seeds sell for $4.45 a bag. If you spend $25.80, how many bags of each type are you buying?
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let x=bags of oyster shell grit bought
6-x =bags of sunflower seeds bought
..
4x+4.45(6-x)=25.80
4x+26.70-4.45=25.80
-.45x=-.90
x=2
6-x=4
ans:
2 bags of oyster shell grit were bought
4 bags of sunflower seeds were bought
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