Question 205100: A bottle of wine costs $10. If the wine is worth $9 more than the bottle, what is the value of the bottle? Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A bottle of wine costs $10. If the wine is worth $9 more than the bottle, what is the value of the bottle?
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Let the value of the bottle be "x" dollars.
Then the wine is worth "x+9" dollars
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Equation:
cost of bottle + cost of wine = 10 dollars
x + x+9 = 10
2x = 1
x = 1/2 dollar (cost of the bottle)
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x + 9 = 9 1/2 dollars (cost of the wine)
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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