Question

A summer camp is organizing a hike and needs to buy granola bars for the campers. The granola bars come in small boxes and large boxes. Each small box has 8 granola bars and each large box has 12 granola bars. The camp bought 3 times as many small boxes as large boxes, which altogether had 72 granola bars. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of small boxes purchased and the number of large boxes purchased. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

Answer 1

Answer:

8x + 12y = 72  

3y = x

Step-by-step explanation:

If we set small boxes as x and large boxes as y, then...

8x + 12y = 72  

y = x/3  or  3y = x

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