SOLUTION: A toll collector on a highway receives ​$
8 for
buses
and ​$
7 for
cars. At the end of a
3
3​-hour ​period, she collected ​$
296. How many
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Question 1072231: A toll collector on a highway receives $
8 for
buses
and $
7 for
cars. At the end of a
3
3-hour period, she collected $
296. How many
buses and
cars passed through the toll booth during that period? List all possible solutions
Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, josgarithmetic:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You do it.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x cars
y busses
------You are interested only in the whole number solutions. That is the equation, so you can look for all of the whole number solutions for x and y.
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