Question

A hair stylist offers haircuts and hair coloring to his customers. A haircut costs $18 and hair coloring costs $42. Yesterday, the hair stylist had 12 customers and earned a total of $288. How many of the hair stylists customers received hair coloring yesterday

Answer 1

haircut =9 and hair color= 3

Explanation:

Step one:

GIven data

let the haircut be x

and hair color be y in numbers.

so

18x+42y=288------------1

x+y=12---------------------2

from 1

x=12-y, put this in 2, we have

18(12-y)+42y=288

216-18y+42y=288

collect like terms

24y=288-216

24y=72

divide both sides by 24

y=72/24

y=3

put y= 3 in 2

x+3= 12

x= 12-3

x=9