Question

Awaitress sold 18 ribeye steak dinners and 27 grilled salmon dinners, totaling $587.93 on a particular day. Another day she sold 26 ribeye steak dinners and 9 grilled salmondinners, totaling $584.62. How much did each tipe or dinner cost?The cost of ribeye steak dinners is and the cost of salmon dinners is $(Simplify your answer. Round to the nearest hundredth as needed)o

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1

Let x represents the price of ribeye steak dinner

Let y represents the price of salon dinner

then,

Awaitress sold 18 ribeye steak dinners and 27 grilled salmon dinners, totaling $587.93 on a particular day, traslate

`18x+27y=587.93\rightarrow Equation\text{ (1)}`

Another day she sold 26 ribeye steak dinners and 9 grilled salmon

dinners, totaling $584.62, traslate

`26x+9y=584.62\rightarrow Equation(2)`

Step 2

solve the equations

a)isolate x in equation (1) and replace in equation (2) to get y