SOLUTION: A vegetable stand sells pumpkins for $5 each and squashes for $3 each . One day they sell 6 more squashes than pumpkins and their total was $98. Write a system of equations and sol

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Question 1072731: A vegetable stand sells pumpkins for $5 each and squashes for $3 each . One day they sell 6 more squashes than pumpkins and their total was $98. Write a system of equations and solve to find how many pumpkins and squashes they sold.
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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s Squash
p Pumpkin

system%285p%2B3s=98%2Cs-p=6%29


Use Elimination if you want....

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%283s%2B5p%29-%283s-3p%29=98-3%2A6




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%283s%2B5p%29%2B%285s-5p%29=98%2B5%2A6




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Answer by MathTherapy(10552) About Me  (Show Source):
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A vegetable stand sells pumpkins for $5 each and squashes for $3 each . One day they sell 6 more squashes than pumpkins and their total was $98. Write a system of equations and solve to find how many pumpkins and squashes they sold. 
Let number of pumpkins and squashes sold, be P and S, respectively

The equations you want are: 

Use SUBSTITUTION to solve for P, the number of pumpkins

Substitute value for P in eq (ii) to get value for S: the number of squashes.