SOLUTION: Please help me solve this world problem. A carrot has 13 calories more than a celery stalk. Five carrots and ten celery stalks have only 170 calories. Find the number of calories i

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Question 1074655: Please help me solve this world problem. A carrot has 13 calories more than a celery stalk. Five carrots and ten celery stalks have only 170 calories. Find the number of calories in a stalk of celery and in a carrot.
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, MathTherapy:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let C be the calories in celery and T be calories in a carrot.
T=13%2BC
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10C=170
C=17
Substitute into the first equation and solve for T.
T=13%2B17

Answer by MathTherapy(10556) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Please help me solve this world problem. A carrot has 13 calories more than a celery stalk. Five carrots and ten celery stalks have only 170 calories. Find the number of calories in a stalk of celery and in a carrot.
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