document.write( "Question 1023782: Tia and Ken each sold snack bars and magazine subscriptions for a school fund-raiser. Tia earned $132 and Ken earned $190. Define a variable and formulate a system of linear equation from this situation. What was the price of per snack bar? Determine the reasonableness of your solution.\r
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document.write( "Snack bars sold by Tia - 16 Magazine Subscriptions sold by Tia - 4\r
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document.write( "Snack bars sold by Ken - 20 Magazine subscriptions sold by Ken - 6 \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #653819 by jorel555(1290) ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let s and z be snack bars and magazines. Then: \n" ); document.write( "16s+4z=132 \n" ); document.write( "20s+6z=190 \n" ); document.write( "So: \n" ); document.write( "48s+12z=396 \n" ); document.write( "40s+12z=380 \n" ); document.write( "8s=16 \n" ); document.write( "s=$2 per bar \n" ); document.write( "z=$25 per subscription!!!!!!!!!!!\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Is this reasonable?? I think so!!!!!!! \n" ); document.write( " |