SOLUTION: A​ girls' softball team is raising money for uniforms and travel expenses. They are selling flats of bedding plants for ​$10.00 and hanging baskets for ​$27.00. T
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Question 1112216: A girls' softball team is raising money for uniforms and travel expenses. They are selling flats of bedding plants for $10.00 and hanging baskets for $27.00. They hope to sell three times as many flats of bedding plants as hanging baskets. If they do, their total revenue will be $5700. How many flats of bedding plants do they hope to sell? Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, josgarithmetic:Answer by greenestamps(13203) (Show Source):
Since they want to sell three times as many flats of bedding plants as hanging baskets, consider "packages" of 3 flats and 1 hanging basket. The cost of each of those packages would be 3*$10+$27 = $57.
To have sales of $5700, they would have to sell 100 of those packages.
Since each of those packages contains 3 flats of bedding plants, the number of flats they hope to sell is 100*3 = 300.
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