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Question 347692: can you please help me with this word problem? I am suppose to write equations for this word problem and they are suppose to fit in a matrix.

Word Problem: The senior class is selling greeting cards. Birthday Cards sell for $5.00 a box. Thank You cards sell for $7.00 a box. You sold 4 more boxes of birthday cards than thank you cards. your total sales was $152.00. How many Boxes of each kind did you sell?
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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
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Word Problem: The senior class is selling greeting cards.
Birthday Cards sell for $5.00 a box.
Thank You cards sell for $7.00 a box.
You sold 4 more boxes of birthday cards than thank you cards.
your total sales was $152.00.
How many Boxes of each kind did you sell?
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Equations:
Quantity Eq.:: b = t+4
Value Eq.:::: 5b + 7t = 152
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Rearrange for Matrix:
b - t = 4
5b +7t = 152
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Using a Matrix Method I get:
b = 15 (# of birthday card boxes sold)
t = 11 (# of thankyou card boxes sold)
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Cheers,
Stan H.