SOLUTION: sam and mark have the same money .
sam buys 4 sweets and has 5p left over.
mark buys 2 sweets and has 11p left over
form an equation where s stands for the price of sweet
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sam buys 4 sweets and has 5p left over.
mark buys 2 sweets and has 11p left over
form an equation where s stands for the price of sweet
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Question 845986: sam and mark have the same money .
sam buys 4 sweets and has 5p left over.
mark buys 2 sweets and has 11p left over
form an equation where s stands for the price of sweets and how much money sam had at the start to spend Found 2 solutions by stanbon, josmiceli:Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! sam and mark have the same money .
sam buys 4 sweets and has 5p left over.
mark buys 2 sweets and has 11p left over
form an equation where s stands for the price of sweets and how much money sam had at the start to spend
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Equations:
Start: S = M
S-4s = 5p
M-2s = 11p
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Substitute for S and for M::
4s+5p = 2s+11p
2s = 6p
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Sam at start::
S = 2(2s) + 5p
S = 2(6p)+5p
S = 17p (amt Sam had at the start).
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! Sam spent p
Mark spent p
They have the same amount of money, so
The price is 3 p / 1 sweet and
Same had p to start with
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