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.

Question

How many brownies and how many cookies were sold?

Answer 1

Let's say x is the number of brownies sold.
And y is the number of chocolate chip cookies sold.
According to the given inforamtion,
x + y = 190 ...(1)
$2x + $1y = $260 ...(2)

Now using equation (1), we can express y as:
y = 190 - x

Substituting this value of y in equation (2), we get:
$2x + $1(190-x) = $260

Simplifying and solving for x, we get:
$x = 40$

Substituting the value of x in equation (1), we get:
40 + y = 190

Solving for y, we get:
$y = 150$

Therefore, 40 brownies and 150 chocolate chip cookies were sold.

Answer 2

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