SOLUTION: I would be grateful for help breaking this down. Thank you. One day a store sold 33 sweatshirts. White ones cost&#8203; $9.95 and yellow ones cost $13.50. In&#8203; all, &#8203

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Question 1125415: I would be grateful for help breaking this down. Thank you.
One day a store sold 33 sweatshirts. White ones cost $9.95 and yellow ones cost $13.50. In all, $374.50 worth of sweatshirts were sold. How many of each color were sold?
The store sold
___ white sweatshirts.
Found 2 solutions by MathLover1, MathTherapy:
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source):
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let white sweatshirts be and yellow
One day a store sold sweatshirts:
.....eq.1

White ones cost $ and yellow ones cost $. In all, $ worth of sweatshirts were sold.
.....eq.2

solve this system:
.....eq.1
.....eq.2
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.....eq.1...solve or
.....eq.1a
substitute in eq.2

.....eq.2..solve or

go to .....eq.1a,substitute for

so, white sweatshirts and yellow were sold

Answer by MathTherapy(10552) (Show Source):
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I would be grateful for help breaking this down. Thank you.
One day a store sold 33 sweatshirts. White ones cost $9.95 and yellow ones cost $13.50. In all, $374.50 worth of sweatshirts were sold. How many of each color were sold?
The store sold
___ white sweatshirts.

Let number of white sold, be W
Then number of yellow sold = 33 - W
We then get: 9.95W + 13.5(33 - W) = 374.5
9.95W + 445.5 - 13.5W = 374.5
9.95W - 13.5W = 374.5 - 445.5
- 3.55W = - 71
W, or white sold =
Number of yellow sold =

SOLUTION: I would be grateful for help breaking this down. Thank you. One day a store sold 33 sweatshirts. White ones cost&#8203; $9.95 and yellow ones cost $13.50. In&#8203; all, &#8203

SOLUTION: I would be grateful for help breaking this down. Thank you. One day a store sold 33 sweatshirts. White ones cost $9.95 and yellow ones cost $13.50. In all, &#8203