Question

John has a job transporting soft drinks by truck. his truck is filled with cans that weigh 14 ounces each and bottles that weigh 70 ounces each. there is a combined total of 820 cans and bottles in his truck. let x be the number of 14 -ounce cans in his truck. write an expression for the combined total weight

Answer 1

14x + 70y = 820. Where we have taken y to be the number of bottles and x to be the number of cans.