SOLUTION: A​ girls' softball team is raising money for uniforms and travel expenses. They are selling flats of bedding plants for ​$10.00 and hanging baskets for ​$27.00. T

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Question 1112216: A​ girls' softball team is raising money for uniforms and travel expenses. They are selling flats of bedding plants for ​$10.00 and hanging baskets for ​$27.00. They hope to sell three times as many flats of bedding plants as hanging baskets. If they​ do, their total revenue will be ​$5700. How many flats of bedding plants do they hope to​ sell?
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Answer by greenestamps(13203)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Since they want to sell three times as many flats of bedding plants as hanging baskets, consider "packages" of 3 flats and 1 hanging basket. The cost of each of those packages would be 3*$10+$27 = $57.

To have sales of $5700, they would have to sell 100 of those packages.

Since each of those packages contains 3 flats of bedding plants, the number of flats they hope to sell is 100*3 = 300.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

b, hanging baskets
3b, flats of plants





100 hanging plants
300 flats of bedding plants
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