Question

A local charity has put together 20 care packages for

people. Each package contains $15 worth of goodies
and $2.50 per food satchel added to it. If the charity
spent $800 on the care packages how many food
satchels were in each package? Write and solve an
equation for this scenario.

Answer 1

The equation is 15x + 2.50y = 800, where x is the number of care packages and y is the number of food satchels. Solving for y, we get y = 32. Therefore, each package contained 32 food satchels.

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