Solve the system of equations.

Question

A sorority held a bake sale to raise money and sold brownies and chocolate chip cookies. They priced the brownies at $2 and the chocolate chip cookies at $1. They raised $260 and sold 190 items.
How many brownies and how many cookies were sold?

Answer 1

Let's assume x to be the number of brownies being sold and y to be the number of chocolate chip cookies sold.

A sorority raised $260, so we can write an equation:

2x + 1y = 260 (Equation 1)

A sorority sold a total of 190 items at the bake sale, so we can also write another equation:

x + y = 190 (Equation 2)

Now we have two equations with two variables x and y, we can use the elimination or substitution method to solve for x and y.

Answer 2

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