Problema Solution
the susan hasen goup in st.george, utah, sells $16,000,000 of single family homes and townhomes a year. if single family homes, with an average sellng price of $250,000, sell 3.5 times more often than townhomes, with an average selling price of $190,000, how many of each are sold? (round to the nearest whole.)
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Let 't' stand for the number of townhomes sold and 's' stands for the number of single family homes. From the given we can write:
250000(s)+190000(t)=16000000
s=3.5t
Using, Algebrator to solve for 's' and 't', we get:
s=53
t=15