Question
At a particular restaurant, each chicken wing has 75 calories and each slider has 250 calories. A combination meal with chicken wings and sliders is shown to have 800 total calories and twice as many chicken wings as there are sliders. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of chicken wings in the combination meal and the number of sliders in the combination meal. Define the variables that you use to write the system.
Answers
number of sliders ---- x
number of wings ----- 2x
2x(75) + 250x = 800
150x + 250x = 800
400x = 800
x = 2
so 2 sliders and 4 chicken wings
check:
Twice as many wings as sliders ? YUP
2(75) + 4(250) = 800 ?? YUP
all is good!
number of wings ----- 2x
2x(75) + 250x = 800
150x + 250x = 800
400x = 800
x = 2
so 2 sliders and 4 chicken wings
check:
Twice as many wings as sliders ? YUP
2(75) + 4(250) = 800 ?? YUP
all is good!
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