SOLUTION: Last night the basketball concession stand sold 175 items. The concession stand made $687.50 selling bags of popcorn for $5.00 each and boxes of candy for $2.50 each. Write your

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Question 1170986: Last night the basketball concession stand sold 175 items. The concession stand made $687.50 selling bags of popcorn for $5.00 each and boxes of candy for $2.50 each.
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Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, greenestamps:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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p bags of popcorn
c boxes of candy
system%28p%2Bc=175%2C5p%2B2.5c=687.5%29


To solve, try multiplying the revenue equation by 1%2F2.5 to show 2p%2Bc=275. You can use the system system%28p%2Bc=175%2C2p%2Bc=275%29 to eliminate c,...

Answer by greenestamps(13200) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let x be the number of boxes of candy sold.
Then (175-x) is the number of boxes of popcorn sold (because the total number of items sold was 175).

The total cost of the items, at $2.50 for each box of candy and $5 for each bag of popcorn, was $687.50:

2.50%28x%29%2B5%28175-x%29+=+687.50

It sounds as if an equation is what you wanted, so I'll end my response there.