Question

When Jonathan bought 12 peaches and pears, at $1.50 per peach and

at $1.60 per pear, the total price was $18.50.
How many peaches and pears did he buy, respectively?
Fill in the blanks provided and solve for the answer.​

Answer 1

Answer 5 pears and 7 peaches

Explanation: you will need to make two equations to represent the problem
X being for peaches and y for pears
x+y= 12
1.5x + 1.6y= 18.5

We are going to use the elimination method and so we need to cancel either x or y in this case x. So we multiple the top equation by -1.5
-1.5x - 1.5y = -18
1.5x + 1.6y = 18.5

Then we can cancel the x since they are opposite and we can add the rest
0.1y =0.5
Y= 5
Then we can substitute the y into one of the equations
x + 5= 12
x= 7