SOLUTION: At the Sweet Shop, one can buy 8 Pips for a dive, 4 Quips for a quarter, and 13 Rips for a nickel. How many Rips can be purchased for the same cost as what one would pay for a to

Question 242659: At the Sweet Shop, one can buy 8 Pips for a dive, 4 Quips for a quarter, and 13
Rips for a nickel. How many Rips can be purchased for the same cost as what
one would pay for a total of 40 Pips and 40 Quips?

Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
At the Sweet Shop, one can buy 8 Pips for a dime, 4 Quips for a quarter, and 13
Rips for a nickel. How many Rips can be purchased for the same cost as what
one would pay for a total of 40 Pips and 40 Quips?
:
Cost for a single item
p = =
q =
r =
:
Let r = no. of rips
:
r = 40* + 40*
:
Cancel the 4's
r = 10(5) + 10(25)
r = 50 + 250
5r = 13(300)
5r = 3900
r =
r = 780 rips

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