<PRE><B>Question 173842</B>
 shop sells skirts for $45 and blouses for $35. Its entire stock is worth $51,750, but sales are slow and only half the skirts and two-thirds of the blouses are sold, for a total of $30,600. How many skirts and blouses are left in the store?
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Equations:
Value equation:      45s +      35b = 51750
Value equation: (1/2)45s + (2/3)35b = 30600
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   9s +      7b = 10350
22.5s + 23.333b = 30600
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Solve by what ever method you know to get:
s = 520 (original number of skirts)
b = 810 (original number of blouses)
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skirts now in the store: (1/2)520 = 260
blouses now in the store: (1/3)810 = 270
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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