SOLUTION: For a school fund raiser, Jay sold 12 boxes of stationary adn 8 boxes of envelopes, for a total of $41.00. Sue sold 18 boxes of stationary and 16 boxes of envelopes, for a total of
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Question 27859: For a school fund raiser, Jay sold 12 boxes of stationary adn 8 boxes of envelopes, for a total of $41.00. Sue sold 18 boxes of stationary and 16 boxes of envelopes, for a total of $68.50. How much did one box of envelopes cost?
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! Answer by Paul(988) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let the satonary be x
Let the envelopes by y
12x+8y=41 --> solve for y
8y=41-12x
y=5.125-1.5x (subsititon)
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