Question

Mr. Perrins’s class sold packs of peanut butter cookies for $2.35 each and Mr. Woods’s class sold bottles of milk for $1.34 each. Together, the classes sold 73 items and earned $141.25 for their school. Write and solve a system of equations that model the problem. Show all your work. (a) Which class earned more money? (b) How much more money did that class earn?

Answer 1

1. Solution = (4,3) and they intersect.

2. Solution = Infinite, this means that the lines overlap each other constantly.

3. Equations = x + y=73 and 2.35x + 1.34y = 141.25

PB Cookies made $101.05

Milk Bottles made $40.02

The cookies made more by $61.03

Explanation:

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