Question

During the bake sale, Paayal and Parvathy sold 200 cookies. Paayal sold her cookies for 5 cents each, while Parvathy sold her cookies for 10 cents each. The total amount of money customers paid for cookies was $11.00. How many cookies did Paayal sell? How many cookies did Parvathy sell?

Answer 1

Paayal sold 180 cookies and Parvathy sold 20 cookies.

Explanation:

From the information given, you can write the following equations:

x+y=200 (1)

0.05x+0.10y=11 (2), where:

x is the amount of cookies that Paayal sold and y is the amount of cookies that Parvathy sold.

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

x=200-y (3)

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

0.05(200-y)+0.10y=11

10-0.05y+0.10y=11

0.05y=1

y=1/0.05

y=20

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

x=200-y

x=200-20

x=180

According to this, the answer is that Paayal sold 180 cookies and Parvathy sold 20 cookies.