Question

april bought some sports drinks and slices of pizza for her friend. she bought 3 more sports drinks than slices of pizza. if her total order was $21.25, how many sports drinks did she purchase?

Answer 1

Let the number of sports drinks April bought be represented by = s

Let the pizza slices April bought be represented by = p

As she spent a total of $21.25 so equation becomes:

$s+p=21.25$

$p+3+p=21.25$

$2p=18.25$

$p=9.125$

As she bought 3 more sports drinks than pizza slices so, s = p+3

Answer 2

Answer:

Number of Sports drinks purchased is equal to 8

Step-by-step explanation:

Complete Question

April bought some sports drinks and slices of pizza for her friends. She bought 3 more sports drinks than slices of pizza. If her total order was 21.25, how many sports drinks did she purchase? one slice of pizza cost 2.25 and one sport drink cost 1.25

Solution -

Let the total number of slices of pizza's purchased be $X$

Then the total number of sports drinks purchased would be $X + 3$

Given -

Price of one slice of pizza $= 2.25$ dollars

Price of one sports drinks $= 1.25$ dollars

The total cost of $X$ slices of pizza and $X + 3$ sports drinks would be

$X * 2.25 + (X+3) * 1.25 = 21.25$

$2.25 X + 1.25 X + 3.75 = 21.25 \\3.5 X = 21.25 -3.75\\3.5 X = 17.5\\X = \frac{17.5}{3.5} \\X = 5$

Thus, the number of slices of pizza purchased is equal to $5$

Hence, number of Sports drinks purchased is equal to

$5 + 3\\8$