SOLUTION: Business and finance. There are 850 Douglas fir and ponderosa pine trees in a section of forest bought by Sawz Logging Co. The company paid an average of $300 for each Douglas fi

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: Business and finance. There are 850 Douglas fir and ponderosa pine trees in a
section of forest bought by Sawz Logging Co. The company paid an average of
$300 for each Douglas fir and $225 for each ponderosa pine. If the company paid
$217,500 for the trees, how many of each kind did the company buy?
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300x+225(850-x)=217,500
300x+191,250-225x=217,500
75x=26,250
x=350 (fir trees)
y=850-350=500 (pine trees)
Check by plugging all of the values back into the original equation.