Question

A store sold 70 hammers and ranchers Hammer sold for $10 each in French so for five dollars each a total of 600.00 what's the collected how many hammers were sold and how many wrenches were sold

Answer 1

50 hammers and 20 wrenches.

Explanation:

Let x represent number of hammers and y represent number of ranchers.

We have been given that a store sold 70 hammers and ranchers. We can represent this information in an equation as:

`x+y=70...(1)`

We are also told that each hammer sold for $10 and each rancher sold for five dollars resulting a total of 600.00. We can represent this information in an equation as:

`10x+5y=600...(2)`

From equation (1), we will get:

`x=70-y`

Substituting this value in equation (2), we will get:

`700-10y+5y=600`

`700-5y=600`

`700-700-5y=600-700`

`-5y=-100`

`(-5y)/(-5)=(-100)/(-5)`

`y=20`

Therefore, 20 wrenches were sold.

Now, we will substitute
`y=20` in equation (1) as:

`x+20=70`

`x+20-20=70-20`

`x=50`

Therefore, 50 hammers were sold.