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Books cost 40 cents and pamphlets 5 cents at the book sale. If Donnie spends $4.15 at the book sale and purchased 20 more pamphlets t
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Question 207172This question is from textbook Algebra I: Incremental Development
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Books cost 40 cents and pamphlets 5 cents at the book sale. If Donnie spends $4.15 at the book sale and purchased 20 more pamphlets than he did books, how many pamphlets did he buy?
Thank you! This question is from textbook Algebra I: Incremental Development
You can put this solution on YOUR website! let B = number of books purchased.
let P = number of pamphlets purchased.
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.40 * B + .05 * P = $4.15
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Donnie purchased 20 more pamphlets than he did books.
this means that P = B + 20 which means that:
the number of pamphlets is equal to the number of books plus 20.
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Since , we can substitute for P in the money equation to get:
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simplifying this equation, we get: which becomes: which becomes: which becomes: which becomes:
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7 books are purchased and 27 pamphlets are purchased.
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total cost is
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