Question

cindy bought a new jacket. Jill bought a jacket that costs 3 times as much as Cindy. Altogether their jackets cost 300$. What equation can be used to represent the problem and how much was each of their jackets?

Answer 1

x + 3x = $400

the jacket cost price of Cindy nd Jill is $100 and $300 respectively

Explanation:

The computation is shown below:

Here we assume the cindy be x

So the Jill be 3x

Now the equation is

x + 3x = $400

4x = $400

x = $100

So the Cindy jacket cost is $100

And, the Jill jacket cost would be

= 3x

= 3(100)

= $300

Hence, the jacket cost price of Cindy nd Jill is $100 and $300 respectively