Question

A clerk mixes  a 15 pound a 15 pound bag of nuts for a customer. peanuts cost $ 5.50 5.50 per  pound pound amd cashews cost $ 7.60 7.60 per  pound . Pound . the total cost comes to $ 75.50 write a system of equations to find how many pounds of peanuts and how many pounds of cashew are in the bag

Answer 1

`x+y= 15---------------------1\\\\5.5x+7.6y= 75.5----------------2`

Explanation:

Given data

let the number of peanuts be x

and the number of cashew be y

so

x+y= 15---------------------1

and

5.5x+7.6y= 75.5----------------2

Hence the system of equation is given as

`x+y= 15---------------------1\\\\5.5x+7.6y= 75.5----------------2`