Question

Melanie works at a frozen yogurt stand after school. The stand sells fruit and yogurt smoothies for $3.00 each and soft-serve cones for $2.00 each. On a hot summer day, the stand sold 12 more smoothies than soft-serve cones for total sales of $206. Which of the following systems of equations could be used to find s

s
, the number of smoothies, and c
c
, the number of cones the shop sold that day?

Answer 1

3s+2c=206

s=c+12

Explanation:

3.00(smothies,s) + 2.00(cones,c) = $206 (total)

s,smoothies = c,cones + 12