SOLUTION: Mary goes to the market to buy vegetables. The tomatoes are 60 cents per pound and onions are 67 cents per pound. She gets 10 pounds and spends a total of $6.21. How much did she s

Question 1009057: Mary goes to the market to buy vegetables. The tomatoes are 60 cents per pound and onions are 67 cents per pound. She gets 10 pounds and spends a total of $6.21. How much did she spend on each vegetable?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39838) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
t, tomatos
c, onions (cebollas)

-----substitution using poundage sum equation

Go back to use prices to get the cost of each.
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