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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
$704, how many gift bags were sold?
Answer: 256 gift bags (How?) Answer by ikleyn(52787) (Show Source):
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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 $704, how many gift bags were sold?
Answer: 256 gift bags (How?)
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Let x be the number of gift bags sold.
Then the number of rolls of wrapping paper sold is .
The value equation for the profit is
= 704,
2.5x + 3x = 1408,
5.5x = 1408,
x = = 256.
Thus we found the number of gift bags sold. It is 256.
