SOLUTION: A sweatshirt with a name costs $8.95, and a sweatshirt with a picture of a rock band costs $9.50. If 30 sweatshirts were sold one day for a total of $272.90, how many of each kind
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Question 259669: A sweatshirt with a name costs $8.95, and a sweatshirt with a picture of a rock band costs $9.50. If 30 sweatshirts were sold one day for a total of $272.90, how many of each kind were sold? Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let the no. of shirts with rock band picture be x.
Then the other shirts sold will be 30 -x. ( since total shirts sold was 30.)
9.5x is the amount received for selling rock band shirts.
(30-x)x 8.95 is the amount recieved for selling name shirts.
so 9.5x + (30-x) x 8.95 = $ 272.90
9.5x + 268.5 - 8.95x = $ 272.90 ( remove brackets)
0.55x = 272.90-268.50
0.55x = $ 4.40
x= 4.4 / 0.55
x= 8
30-x = 22
Rock band shirts sold 8
Name shirt sold 22
