SOLUTION: A girl bought mangoes at P7.50 each. There were two types of mangoes: good ones and not so good ones. She sold the good ones at P7.90 each and the not-so-good ones at P7.70 each. I

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Question 828202: A girl bought mangoes at P7.50 each. There were two types of mangoes: good ones and not so good ones. She sold the good ones at P7.90 each and the not-so-good ones at P7.70 each. If she earned P34, how many mangoes did she buy?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x is how many good mangos
y is how many not so good..

Girl spent P of money for the mangos.
Her revenue was .

Her earning were the profit: P

You do not have enough described information to find x or y or their sum. The problem description only allows for one equation in two unknown variables.




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You can accept any or all positive whole number ordered pairs for x and y.
This may be anything from 85 good mangos and 0 bad mangos; to 0 good mangos and 170 bad mangos.

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