Question

Indigo and her children went into a restaurant and she bought $42 worth of

hamburgers and drinks. Each hamburger costs $5. 50 and each drink costs $2. 25. She

bought a total of 10 hamburgers and drinks altogether. Write a system of equations

that could be used to determine the number of hamburgers and the number of drinks

that Indigo bought. Define the variables that you use to write the system

Answer 1

Answer: Let h = the number of hamburgers Let d = the number of drinks System of Equations: 5.50h + 2.25d = 42 h + d =

Explanation:

Answer 2

Let x be the number of hamburgers that Indigo bought, and let y be the number of drinks that she bought.

Then we can write the following system of equations to represent the given information:

5.5x + 2.25y = 42 (the total cost of hamburgers and drinks is $42)

x + y = 10 (the total number of hamburgers and drinks is 10)

These two equations together form a system that can be solved to determine the number of hamburgers and drinks that Indigo bought.

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