Question

red roses cost $3 each . Pink roses cost $2 each . A man buys 24 flowers for his wife with some pink roses and the rest red roses. The total cost of the flowers is $68 . Write a system of equations to model this situation and use the equation to determine how many red and how many link roses he bought

Answer 1

Theres an idea on how to start you could solve by elimination or substitution!

Answer 2

Let the no. of red rose be R,
Let the no. of pink rose be P.
$3*R+$2*P = $68
R+P=24

R=24-P 
3(24-P)+2P=68
72-3P+2P=68
P=4
R=20