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Jennifer's bakery sold half as many marble cakes as strawberry shortcakes. The price of a marble cakes is $6 and the price of a strawberry shortcake is $8.50. If the total amount of sales for these cakes was $391, what is the total number of each kind of cake sold?
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\n" ); document.write( "Equations:
\n" ); document.write( "Quantity: 2m = s
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\n" ); document.write( "Value::: 6m + 8.5s = 391 dollars
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\n" ); document.write( "Substitute for s and solve for \"m\":
\n" ); document.write( "6m + 8.5(2m) = 391
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\n" ); document.write( "6m + 17m = 391
\n" ); document.write( "23m = 391
\n" ); document.write( "m = 17 (# of marble cakes)
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\n" ); document.write( "solve for \"s\"
\n" ); document.write( "s = 2m
\n" ); document.write( "s = 34 (# of stawberry shortcake)
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