Gabriel is raising money for a school trip by selling lollipops and bags of chips. The price of each lollipop is $1 and the pric
e of each bag of chips is $1.50. Yesterday Gabriel made $30 from selling a total of 26 lollipops and bags of chips. Graphically solve a system of equations in order to determine the number of lollipops sold, x,x, and the number of bags of chips sold, yy.
Given that the metal strip is being installed around a bench that 6ft long 2ft wide. The metal required will be given by: P=4(L+W) =4(6+2) =4(8) =32 ft Therefore we conclude that we need a metal strip that is 32ft long