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 344 pizza slices and sodas combined. You must report the number of pizza slices sold and the number of sodas sold. What equations 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 344 pizza slices and sodas combined. You must report the number of pizza slices sold and the number of sodas sold.  What equations did you use to solve this, where P = the number of pizza slices sold and S = the number of sodas sold? 
A. 3.50p+1.50s=344 and p+s=800
B. 3.50+1.50=344p+s and p+s=800
C. 3.50p+1.50s=800 and p+s=344
D. 3.50+1.50=800p+s and p+s=344

GPT 3.5 · Answer

The correct equations used to solve this problem are: A. 3.50p + 1.50s = 800 and p + s = 344 So, you would be reporting that you sold 172 pizza slices and 172 sodas.