Question

Solving by elimination. Give a real life mathematical example that relates to this concept.

Answer 1

You are running a flower shop at a fair. You are selling flower and flower pot. Each flower costs $1.50 and each flower pot costs $0.50. At the end of the day you made a total of $78.50. You sold a total of 87 flowers and flower pots combined. How many flowers and flower pots were sold ?

Ans.

Let x = the number of flower sold

Let y = the number of flower pot sold

1.50x + 0.50y = 78.50   

x + y = 87

Now i think you can solve it.