Question

you are running a concession stand at a basketball game. You are selling hot dogs and sodas. Each hot dog costs $1.50 and each soada $0.50. At the end of the night you made a total of $78.50. You sold a total of 87 hot dogs and sodas combined. write a system of equations to represent this situation

Answer 1

x: sodas

y: hotdogs

x + y = 87

0.50x + 1.50y = 78.50

Answer 2

x+y=87

1.50x+.50y=78.50

Explanation:

x-represents hot dogs

y-represents soda