On a recent shopping trip, you see a sale advertising 3 pairs of socks and 2 pairs of shoes for $60. Write an equation using x to represent the cost of socks and y to represent the cost of shoes.

Question

2x + 3y = 60

3x + 2y = 60

20x + 30y = 60

30x + 20y = 60

GPT-4o mini · Answer

To represent the cost of the items in the sale using an equation, we need to analyze the wording of the problem:

Let $ x $ be the cost of one pair of socks.
Let $ y $ be the cost of one pair of shoes.

The sale is offering 3 pairs of socks and 2 pairs of shoes for $60. This can be written as:

\[ 3x + 2y = 60 \]

So the correct equation is:

3x + 2y = 60