Question

Jason owns a food truck that sells tacos and burritos. He sells each taco for $4.75 and each burrito for $7.50. Yesterday Jason made a total of $790 in revenue from all burrito and taco sales and there were twice as many burritos sold as there were tacos sold. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of tacos sold and the number of burritos sold. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

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Answer 1

4.75t + 7.50b = 790

b = 2t

Explanation:

Let t represent the number of tacos that he sold, and let b represent the number of burritos he sold.

4.75t can represent how much money he earned from selling tacos, and 7.50b can represent how much money he earned from selling burritos.

Create an equation that adds these together and sets them equal to 790:

4.75t + 7.50b = 790

Next, create another equation that represents how there were twice as many burritos sold than tacos.

This can be represented by b = 2t.

The system of equations is:

4.75t + 7.50b = 790

b = 2t