SOLUTION: A chef spend $540.00 on tomatoes. If the price per kilo of tomatoes can be reduced by $2.00 per kilo, he could have bought 3 more kilos. What is the original price per kilo of toma
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Question 1051038: A chef spend $540.00 on tomatoes. If the price per kilo of tomatoes can be reduced by $2.00 per kilo, he could have bought 3 more kilos. What is the original price per kilo of tomatoes? Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Originally,
1.
then,
2.
From eq. 1,
Substituting,
K must be positive, so only one solution works,
So then,
She originally bought 27 kilos at $20/kilo.
