Question

john spent $201 for shirts and pants for work. shirt cost $27 dollars and pants cost $22. if he bought a total of 8 articles of clothing, then how many of each kind did he buy?

Answer 1

5 shirts 3 pants. set up equasion 201=27x +22y then either guess and check or just solve the equasion 

Answer 2

So you subtract, 27-22. 27-22 is equal to 5. So, John will buy 5 kinds of T- Shirts.