You are running a concession stand at a baseball game. You are selling pizza slices and sodas. Each pizza slice sells for $3.50 and each soda sells for $1.50. At the end of the night you made a total of $800. You sold a total of 334 pizza slices and sodas combined. You must report the number of pizza slices sold and the number of sodas sold. What equation did you use to solve this, where P= the number of pizza slices sold and S= the number of sodas sold?

Question

You are running a concession stand at a baseball game. You are selling pizza slices and sodas. Each pizza slice sells for $3.50 and each soda sells for $1.50. At the end of the night you made a total of $800. You sold a total of 334 pizza slices and sodas combined. You must report the number of pizza slices sold and the number of sodas sold. What equation did you use to solve this, where P= the number of pizza slices sold and S= the number of sodas sold?
A. 3.50S+ 1.50P=800 and P + S=334
B. 3.50S +1.50P=334 and P+S= 800
C. 3.50P+S=800 and P+1.50S=334
D. 3.50P+1.50S=800 and P+S=334

GPT 3.5 · Answer

The correct equation is D. 3.50P+1.50S=800 and P+S=334.