Question

20. To furnish a school cafeteria a school can spend $5200 on tables and chairs. Tables cost $200 each

and chairs cost $40. There are 8 times as many chairs as tables. How many tables and chairs will
the school purchase for the cafeteria?

Answer 1

10 tables and 80 chairs

Explanation:

In each table, there are 8 chairs. 8×40$ =320$

1 table cost 200$

Each set of table + chairs is

200 + 320= 520

Total amount of money the school can spend is 5200

Therefore 5200÷ 520 = 10

So there are 10 sets of Table + chairs

So there are 10 tables

Total amount of chairs is 8×10= 80

Hope this help I suck at explaining.