document.write( "Question 1042918: The eighth grade at Memorial Middle School is selling wrapping paper and gift bags to raise money for a field trip. They sold one-half as many rolls of wrapping paper as they did gift bags. The profit they make for each roll of wrapping paper is $2.50 and for each gift bag is $1.50. If the total profit was
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document.write( "Let x be the number of gift bags sold.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the number of rolls of wrapping paper sold is .\r\n" );
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document.write( "The value equation for the profit is \r\n" );
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document.write( " = 704,\r\n" );
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document.write( "2.5x + 3x = 1408,\r\n" );
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document.write( "5.5x = 1408,\r\n" );
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document.write( "x =  = 256.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Thus we found the number of gift bags sold. It is 256.\r\n" );
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