SOLUTION: Don runs a charity fruit sale, selling boxes of oranges for $11 and boxes of grapfruit for $10. If he sold a total of 762 boxes and his total income was $8125, how many boxes of o

Question 45899: Don runs a charity fruit sale, selling boxes of oranges for $11 and boxes of grapfruit for $10. If he sold a total of 762 boxes and his total income was $8125, how many boxes of oranges did he sale?
Answer by Nate(3500) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
boxes of oranges = o
boxes of grapfruit = g
Equation:

and

Combine:

505 boxes of oranges.
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