SOLUTION: a company sells seeds in either 3-pounds or 20-pound bags.One day, the company sells 84 bags with a total weight of 660 pounds. How many 3-pound bags did the company sell? What is
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Question 1038328: a company sells seeds in either 3-pounds or 20-pound bags.One day, the company sells 84 bags with a total weight of 660 pounds. How many 3-pound bags did the company sell? What is the equation used to solve these type of problems.
Answer by Othel(27) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let us designate the number of 3 pound bags sold as
And let us designate the number of 20 pound bags in terms of . Specifically, we know that 84 total bags are sold. So if 3 pound bags sold is , then the 20 pound bags sold is equal to .
Now we add them together...
All of the bags sold, with their respective weights, adds up to 660 pounds. So...
Multiply...
Subtracting 660 from both sides, and adding 17x to both sides, we get...
Now divide by 17, and...
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