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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?
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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?

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5 shirts 3 pants. set up equasion 201=27x +22y then either guess and check or just solve the equasion 
User Michael Waxman
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So you subtract, 27-22. 27-22 is equal to 5. So, John will buy 5 kinds of T- Shirts.
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