Answer:
5 T-shirts
or
35 T-shirts
Step-by-step explanation:
Alright so this question is a bit tricky but I will explain to you the steps. What you want to do is take every possible answer and multiply it by $15 (The price of an adult t shirt) and see if the answer you get can be added onto with the price of small t shirts ($10).
In other words you need a multiple of $10 as your answer so you can add $10 onto to that number until you get your total of $2,375.
Lets start with 185 t-shirts.
If we do 185 shirts x $15 per shirt we get $2775
That is way above the total of $2,375 so we know that this cant be the answer.
Next we can do 110 t-shirts.
If we do 110 shirts x $15 this time we get $1650.
Now while this is less than the total this is not a multiple of 10.
To prove this lets take the total amount of money earned ($2,375) and subtract this $1650 from it to see how much in youth shirts they sold.
$2,375 - $1650 = $725
Now we can divide $725 by the rest of the $10 youth shirts and you will see we get 72.5 which is not a whole number so it cant be answer. Since you cant sell someone 25% of a shirt or they probably would be upset.
Moving onto 35 t shirts lets take the same steps.
35 x $15 (price of adult t-shirt)
We then get $525 from this. Lets subtract this total again from the grand total earnings they made from selling both shirts ($2,375)
$2,375 - $525 = $1850.
Now this is a multiple of 10. Meaning you can add 10 into it go get that number and you wont have more or less than it. It will be spot on.
So we can do $1850 divided by $10 to find the total amount of youth shirts sold. We get 185 from this, which is a possible answer.
Lets do the last one.
5 t shirts multiplied by $15
We get $75 from this and now lets subtract again from the grand total.
$2,375 - $75 = $2,300
Now this would work too which is what kind of stumps me but we will go with it. Going off this either 5 t-shirts or 35 t-shirts would work as an answer cause you can have an even number of youth shirts sold with either answer. So I could have done something wrong but I believe based off of this either would be correct but I could be missing something. Someone correct me if I made a mistake.
Anyways I hope this helps :)\
EDIT :
I see what I did wrong here and failed to take into account the total of 220 t-shirts sold. But I believe this can help solve the last 2 answers.
