Question

The food truck also offers catering services. The food truck makes different kinds of salads for parties and other events. Tammy looks at the paper menu to

decide what to buy
Macaroni Salad
$5 per pound
Potato Salad
$8 por pound
Tammy will order both macaroni and potato salad. She estimates that she will spend a total of 538 on 7 pounds of salad. She uses this system of equations to
show how many pounds of macaroni salad, m, and potato salad, p, she plans to buy.
5m +6p = 38
m+p=7
How many pounds of each salad does Tammy plan to buy?

Answer 1

4 pounds of mac 3 pounds of potato

Explanation:

5+6=11+5+6=22+5+6=33+5=38