SOLUTION: Don runs a charity fruit sale, selling boxes of oranges for $11 and boxes of grapfruit for $10. If he sold a total of 762 boxes and his total income was $8125, how many boxes of o

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Question 45899: Don runs a charity fruit sale, selling boxes of oranges for $11 and boxes of grapfruit for $10. If he sold a total of 762 boxes and his total income was $8125, how many boxes of oranges did he sale?
Answer by Nate(3500) About Me  (Show Source):
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boxes of oranges = o
boxes of grapfruit = g
Equation:
11o+%2B+10g+=+8125
and
o+%2B+g+=+762
Combine:
11o+%2B+10g+=+8125
+
-10o+-+10g+=+-7620
=
o+=+505
g+=+257
505 boxes of oranges.