Question

During a football game, the parents of the players are selling pretzels and popcorn to make money. They charge $2.50 for a bag of popcorn and $2 for a pretzel. The parents collect $336 in sales. They sell twice as many bags of popcorn as pretzels.

Write a system of equations to represent the situation.

How many pretzels did they sell?

Answer 1

The parents sell 48 pretzels.

Explanation:

Let a be the number of bags of popcorn sold, and b the number of pretzels sold.

2.5a + 2b = 336

a = 2b

2.5a + a = 336

3.5a = 336

a = 96

b = 48