Question

Karla sells Valentine's Day teddy bears (x ) and flowers (Y) . it's teddy bear cost $5 and flowers are $8 . she sold a total of $214 and 35 items in all . how many teddy bears and flowers does Karla sell?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represents the number of teddy bears and y represents the number of flowers that Karia sells. If each teddy bear costs $5 and each flower costs $8 and she sold a total of 35 items for $214, we can express the above statements mathematically as per below;

`\begin{gathered} 5x+8y=214 \\ x+y=35 \end{gathered}`

So let's go ahead and solve the above equations simultaneously to find x and y.

To find x, we'll make y the subject of the formula in the 2nd equation;

`y=35-x`

So let's substitute y = 35 - x into the 1st equation and solve for x;