Question

Jasmine went shopping to a store and spent $56 on accessories and clothes. She spent $18 more on clothes than on accessories. write and sooce a system of equations to find how much she spent on each.

Please define x and y variables
and write two equations with the information given in y=mx+b
(order of y=mx+b can be changed)
please do not go any further than that. ​ .

Answer 1

• Let x and y represent the amounts spent on accessories and clothes, respectively
• x + y = 56 . . . or y = -x + 56
• y - x = 18 . . . or y = x + 18

Explanation:

With the variables defined as above, the total amount spent is ...

x + y = 56 . . . . . the amount spent on accessories and clothes

When the amount spent on accessories is subtracted from the amount spent on clothes, the result is $18, so we can write another equation that says this:

y - x = 18

Both equations can be rearranged to put y alone on the left. In the first case, we add -x to both sides of the equation. In the second case, we add x to both sides of the equation.