SOLUTION: “The lady in front of me bought 4 bath towels and 5 bath gloves for 110F then I took the rest:6 bath towels and 4 bath gloves ,but I think there is a mistake because I paid 172F
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Question 1157173: “The lady in front of me bought 4 bath towels and 5 bath gloves for 110F then I took the rest:6 bath towels and 4 bath gloves ,but I think there is a mistake because I paid 172F” a lady said.
A) Express the situation as a system of two equations in two variables then solve this system
B) does the lady have no reason to think that there
is an error Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The lady in front of me bought 4 bath towels let the price be x
and 5 bath gloves let the price be y
4x+5y=110------1
6x+4y=172------2
solving both we get x=60 and y=-2
Not possible
The lady is right
