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Help me out please I don’t understand what I’m doing

Help me out please I don’t understand what I’m doing-example-1
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Since we have the value for selling each shirt, the earnings that came from the hats sold and the total earnings we can complete equation using a linear equation in which the cost of each shirt will represent the slope and the y-intercept will be the earnings that came from the hats, like this:


5x+40=125

then clear the equation for x in order to find how many shirts were sold


\begin{gathered} 5x=125-40 \\ 5x=85 \\ x=17 \end{gathered}

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