document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1030567>Question 1030567</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> a customer buys five cans of baked beans, four packets of brown sugar and two packets of biscuits from a supermarket. he gives the cashier R150.00 and gets R26.00 in change. a can of baked beans costs half as much as a packet of biscuits whilst a packet of sugar is three rand cheaper than a packet of biscuits.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "calculate the cost of a can of baked beans, a packet of sugar and a packet of biscuits?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "how much will eight cans of baked beans, one packet of sugar and six packets of biscuits cost? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Make a packet of biscuits = x<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Tin of beans then = x/2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Packet of sugar = x - 3<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Change from R150.00 = R26.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "So cost of five cans of baked beans, <BR>\n" );
document.write( "four packets of brown sugar <BR>\n" );
document.write( "and two packets of biscuits = R124.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5(x/2) + 4(x - 3) + 2x = R124.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5x/2 + 4x - 12 + 2x = R124.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Collect like terms:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5x/2 + 4x + 2x = R124.00 + R12.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5x/2 + 6x = R136.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Multiply throughout by 2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5x + 12x = R272.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "17x = R272.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = R16.00.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Packet of biscuits = R16.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Tin of beans = R8.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Packet of sugar = R13.00<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "how much will eight cans of baked beans, <BR>\n" );
document.write( "one packet of sugar and six packets of biscuits cost?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "8(R8.00) + R13.00 + 6(16.00)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "= R173.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Hope this helps :-) </SPAN>\n" );
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