Problema Solution
Notebooks cost $15.00 and legal pads cost $7.50 per carton. If and order comes in for a total of 100 cartons for $900.00, what wast the exact number of cartons of notebooks? (hint: Let n=cartons of notebooks
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x + y = 100 and 15x + 7.5y = 900
solving the two equations we get
x = 20 ( note books)
y = 80 ( legal pads )