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It takes Flora 3 hours to knit a pair of socks and 7 hours to knit a pair of gloves. If she spent 100 hours knitting a total of 16 pairs of socks and gloves, how many pairs of each did she knit?

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Answer: Flora knitted 3 pairs of socks and 13 pairs of gloves.

Step-by-step explanation: Given that Flora takes 3 hours to knit a pair of socks and 7 hours to knit a pair of gloves and she spent 100 hours knitting a total of 16 pairs of socks and gloves.

We are to find the number of pairs of socks and gloves that she knitted.

Let a and b denote the number of pairs of socks and gloves respectively that she knitted.

Then, according to the given information, we have


a+b=16~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(i)\\\\3a+7b=100~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(ii)

Multiplying equation (i) by 3, we have


3(a+b)=3* 16\\\\\Rightarrow 3a+3b=48~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(iii)

Subtracting equation (iii) from equation equation (ii), we get


(3a+7b)-(3a+3b)=100-48\\\\\Rightarrow 7b-3b=52\\\\\Rightarrow 4b=52\\\\\Rightarrow b=(52)/(4)\\\\\Rightarrow b=13.

From equation (i), we get


a+b=16\\\\\Rightarrow a=16-13\\\\\Rightarrow a=3.

Thus, Flora knitted 3 pairs of socks and 13 pairs of gloves.

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