A small office supply store sells paper clips in packs of 100 and packs of 250. If the store has 84 packs of paper clips in stoc

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A small office supply store sells paper clips in packs of 100 and packs of 250. If the store has 84 packs of paper clips in stoc

k totaling 12,300 paper clips, how many paper clips would a customer buy if he buys half of the packs of 250 that the store has in stock?

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sveta [45] · Answer 1 · 2022-04-24T14:07:27+03:00

Let x and y be the number of packs with 100 and 250 paper clips, respectively. The system of linear equations that would best represent the given is
x + y = 84
100x + 250y = 12,300

The values of x and y from the equations are 58 and 26, respectively. If a person buys half of the packs of 250 paper clips,
n = (0.5)(250)(26) = 3250

Thus, a person bought 3250 paper clips.