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Aiden owns a food truck that sells tacos and burritos. He sells each taco for $4.75 and each burrito for $7. Yesterday Aiden made a total of $588.75 in revenue and sold 25 more tacos than burritos. Determine the number of tacos sold and the number of burritos sold.

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Number of tacos sold is 65 and number of burritos sold is 40

Solution:

Given that Aiden sells each taco for $4.75 and each burrito for $7

Let the number of tacos sold be "t" and number of burritos sold be "b"

Given that Aiden sold 25 more tacos than burritos

t = b + 25 ---- eqn 1

Also given that yesterday Aiden made a total of $588.75 in revenue

number of tacos sold x cost of each tacos + number of burritos sold x cost of each burritos = 588.75


t * 4.75 + b * 7 = 588.75

4.75t + 7b = 588.75 ----- eqn 2

Substitute eqn 1 in eqn 2

4.75(b + 25) + 7b = 588.75

4.75b + 118.75 + 7b = 588.75

11.75b = 470

b = 40

Substitute b = 40 in eqn 1

t = 40 + 25

t = 65

Thus the number of tacos sold is 65 and number of burritos sold is 40

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