document.write( "Question 1163667: roxy’s ice cream shop sells ice cream sandwiches for $2 and root beer floats for $3. on a hot day the shop sold 8 more sandwiches than root beet floats and made $156 how many root beer floats did they sell? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Let x be the # of root beer floats.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the # of sandwiches is (x+8).\r\n" );
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document.write( "Next, you write the total money equation\r\n" );
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document.write( "    2*(x+8) + 3x = 156   dollars.\r\n" );
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document.write( "From the equation\r\n" );
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document.write( "    2x + 16 + 3x = 156\r\n" );
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document.write( "    5x          = 156 - 16 =  140\r\n" );
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document.write( "     x                     = 140/5 = 28  root beer floats sold.\r\n" );
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