Question

Keegan bought 5 T-shirts and 2 pairs of shoets for $49.50. Each pair of shorts, s, cost twice as much as each T-shirt, t.

Part A
Which system ot equations can vevused to find the price of the shorts and t-shirts?
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Part B
how much did keegan pay for each t-shirt and each pair of shorts?
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Answer 1

Part A

Adding the costs,
`2s+5t=49.50`.

Since a pair of shorts costs twice as much as a T-shirt,
`s=2t`.

The correct answer is option 3.

Part B

`2(2t)+5t=49.50 \\ \\ 9t=49.50 \\ \\ \boxed{t=5.50} \imploes \boxed{s=11}`