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A business rents in-line skates and bicycles to tourists on vacation. A pair of skates rents for $5 per day. A bicycle rents for $20 per day.

On a certain day, the owner of the business has 25 rentals and takes in $425.
Write a system of equation to represent this situation, then solve to find the number of each item rented.
Show both the equations and the solution.

User TheTechGuy
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Answer:

5x+20y=425

Explanation:

Its 5 bucks for x pairs of skates

Its 20 dollars for y bikes

x+y rentals have to equal 25

all of this is equal to 425. All that is left to do is test with number until the statement is true.

try :

5(5)+(20)(20)=425

x + y do equal 25, and the total is equal to 425.

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