Question
30) Jose and Pranav are selling pies for a school fundraiser Customers can buy apple pies and pumpkin pies. Jose sold 1 apple pie and 3 pumpkin pies for a total of 64 Pranav sold 9 apple pies and 4 pumpkin pies for a total of 162 The following system represents this scenario: x+3y=64 9x+4y=162 What does the solution (10,18) represent?
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Resposta
To determine what the solution
represents, we need to substitute the values of
and
into the given system of equations and check if they satisfy both equations.Given system of equations:
Substituting
into the first equation:
Substituting
into the second equation:
Since the solution
satisfies both equations, it represents the number of apple pies and pumpkin pies sold by Jose and Pranav, respectively.Therefore, the solution
represents that Jose sold 10 apple pies and 18 pumpkin pies, while Pranav sold 9 apple pies and 4 pumpkin pies.