First, you have to set up two equations.
X + y = 45
18x + 24y = 1,050
To do this, you have to solve for an exponent by cancelling out the other one. To solve for y, you multiply everything in the first equation by -18.
-18x -18y = -810
This cancels out the x and leaves you with 6y = 240. Divide both sides by 6 and you have the number of Yankee hats that were bought.
Then, you have to substitute 40 for y in the first equation and solve for x.
So to start you will need to divide by -5 then -5 divided by -5 cancelle
There are 6 children total, 4 of which are girls. The ratio is 2:1 girls:boys, so there will need to be twice as many pinks as there are blues. If we get 12 pinks, then there will be 6 blues. That's the biggest since that's all the pinks the florist has.
Answer:
Pretend that x and y represents the 2 numbers that we need to find.
According to the information, we know that:
x + y = 21
6x = y
Replace y in the first equation with 6x (because they are equal to each other according to the second equation):
x + y = 21
x + 6x = 21
7x = 21
x = 21/7 = 3
Now have two ways to find y, both will give us the same result:
3 + y = 21 ⇔ y = 21 - 3 = 18
6 · 3 = y ⇔ y = 18
So the numbers that we need to find are 3 and 18.
The area of a trapezoid can be found with the formula where b1 and b2 are the bases and h is the height. Let's plug in the values that we know and solve for h.
