Question

Hannah and Noah cannot stop eating chips and candy. Together, they

bought a total of 17 items at the store. If a bag of chips costs $3.50, a bar of
candy costs $1.75 and they spent $47.25, how many bags of chips did they
buy? *

Answer 1

10 bags of chips

Explanation:

at first i tried 15x3.50 and that was too much then i tried 13x3.50 and same result so i then tried 10x3.50 and i got 35 then did 7x1.75 and got 12.25 then when you add them together its 47.25...

srry for the late answer....