SOLUTION: Eight shirts and nine pair of pants cost $695 altogether. Three shirts and 3 pants cost $300. How much more does each shirt cost than each pair of pants?

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Question 680533: Eight shirts and nine pair of pants cost $695 altogether. Three shirts and 3 pants cost $300. How much more does each shirt cost than each pair of pants?
Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


You have an error in your problem statement somewhere. With the given data, the price of pants would be a negative number.

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