Question

Roman buys seed packets for the school garden. One packet of radish seeds costs $1.75. One packet of tomato seeds costs $2.50. Let r represent the number of radish seeds and let t represent the number of tomato seeds. Roman spent $62.75 on 32 packets of seeds. How many packets of each type of seeds did Roman buy? Use the table to guess and check. 8 tomato and 24 radish 9 tomato and 23 radish 23 tomato and 9 radish 24 tomato and 8 radish

Answer 1

9 tomato and 23 radish

Explanation:

Answer 2

9 tomato and 23 radish

Explanation:

r - number of radish seeds

t - number of tomato seeds

$1.75r + $2.50t = $62.75

1.75 (23) + 2.50 (9) = 62.75

40.25 + 22.5 = 62.75

$62.75 = $62.75

The answer checks out. Therefore, Roman bought 9 packets of tomato seeds and 23 packets of radish seeds.

Hope that helps.