SOLUTION: So this ice cream shop charges ice-cream by what your putting it in. The cups are 0.60 and the cones are 1.12. One day they made 287.50 dollars. How many cups and cones were sold t

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Question 1013164: So this ice cream shop charges ice-cream by what your putting it in. The cups are 0.60 and the cones are 1.12. One day they made 287.50 dollars. How many cups and cones were sold that day all together?
Do you add 0.60 and 1.12 and then divide 287.50 by that number? Because it gives you a decimal and I don't know if it's okay to round?
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
NO.
You do NOT add the 0.6 to the 1.12.
You have prices but you do not have enough information to know how many cones nor how many cups. The prices given become coefficients in the equation which accounts for the cost.