Question

Caleb and Landon work at a dry cleaners ironing shirts. Caleb can iron 30 shirts per hour, and Landon can iron 15 shirts per hour. Caleb worked 2 more hours than Landon and they ironed 330 shirts between them. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of hours Caleb worked and the number of hours Landon worked. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

Answer 1

Answer: The system of equations are

30x + 15y = 330

x = y + 2

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the number of hours that Caleb worked.

Let y represent the number of hours that Landon worked.

Caleb can iron 30 shirts per hour, and Landon can iron 15 shirts per hour. This means that the number of shirts that Caleb would iron in x hours is 30x and the number of shirts that Landon would iron in y hours is 15y. They ironed 330 shirts between them. This means that

30x + 15y = 330 - - -- - - - - - - - - - - -1

Caleb worked 2 more hours than Landon. This means that

x = y + 2 - - - -- - - - - - - -2

Answer 2

Answer: C

Step-by-step explanation: