Question

Andre wants to purchase some onions and tomatoes to make tomato soup. The recipe states that four times the number of tomatoes, x , plus five times the number of onions, y, should produce 56 bowls of tomato soup. A different recipe states that two times the number or tomatoes and onions used in the soup when Andre adds the two recipes together?

Answer 1

Tomatoes = 11.5

Onions = 2

Explanation:

Andre wants to purchase some onions and tomatoes to make tomato soup. The recipe states that four times the number of tomatoes, , plus five times the number of onions, x, should produce 56 bowls of tomato soup. A different recipe states that two times the number of tomatoes used minus the number of onions used should produce 21 bowls of tomato soup. What is the resulting recipe for the number or tomatoes and onions used in the soup when Andre adds the two recipes together?

Let

Tomatoes = x

Onions = y

Recipe 1:

4x + 5y = 56

Recipe 2:

2x - y = 21

4x + 5y = 56 (1)

2x - y = 21 (2)

Multiply (2) by 5

4x + 5y = 56 (1)

10x - 5y = 105 (3)

Add

10x + 4x = 105 + 56

14x = 161

x = 161 / 14

= 11.5

Substitute x =11.5 into

2x - y = 21

2(11.5) - y = 21

23 - y = 21

-y = 21 - 23

-y = -2

y = 2

Tomatoes = 11.5

Onions = 2