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You have space in your garden for 60 small flowering bulbs. Crocus bulbs cost $0.25 each and daffodil bulbs cost $0.85 each. Your budget allows you to spend $39.00 on bulbs. How many crocus bulbs and how many daffodil

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You have space in your garden for 60 small flowering bulbs. Crocus bulbs cost $0.25 each and daffodil bulbs cost $0.85 each. Your budget allows you to spend $39.00 on bulbs. How many crocus bulbs and how many daffodil bulbs can you buy?

Answer:

You can buy 20 crocus bulbs and 40 daffodil bulbs.

Explanation:

From the information provided you can write the following equations:

x+y=60 (1)

0.25x+0.85y=39 (2), where:

x is the number of crocus bulbs and y is the number of daffodil bulbs.

First, you can solve for x in (1):

x=60-y (3)

Then, you can replace (3) in (2):

0.25(60-y)+0.85y=39

15-0.25y+0.85y=39

0.60y=39-15

y=24/0.60

y=40

Finally, you can replace the value of y in (3) to find the value of x:

x=60-40

x=20

According to this, the answer is that you can buy 20 crocus bulbs and 40 daffodil bulbs.

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