document.write( "Question 244265: The Zeller Jewelry Company sold gold rings for $50 each and silver rings for $35 each. Total sales were $2,400. If customers bought twice as many silver as gold rings, how many of each did the store sell? Find the dollar sales of each. \n" ); document.write( "
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The Zeller Jewelry Company sold gold rings for $50 each and silver rings for $35 each. Total sales were $2,400. If customers bought twice as many silver as gold rings, how many of each did the store sell? Find the dollar sales of each.\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "we need to set up two equations.
\n" ); document.write( "gold rings=g
\n" ); document.write( "silver rings=s\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "the first in order of information given
\n" ); document.write( "50g+35s=2400
\n" ); document.write( "2g=s
\n" ); document.write( "now wee substitute
\n" ); document.write( "50g+35*2g=2400
\n" ); document.write( "50g+70g=2400
\n" ); document.write( "120g=2400
\n" ); document.write( "g=20
\n" ); document.write( "s=40
\n" ); document.write( "But we are not finished yet. The questions doesn't ask for the number of silver and gold rings sold but the dollar amounts of the sales. We would have done this anyways to check our answers.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "50*20=$1000 in gold rings\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "35*40=$1400 in silver rings\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "check
\n" ); document.write( "1000+1400=2400
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