Question

A teacher is buying supplies for an upcoming art project. She buys x bottles of paint for $1.29 each. She buys 8 more canvases than bottles paint for $1.89 each. Her total pretax cost is $37.38. How many of each item is she buying?

Answer 1

Answer:

7 bottles of paint and 15 canvases

Step-by-step explanation:

I'm letting x stand for the number of bottles of paint and y stand for the number of canvases

1.29x+1.89y=37.38

and y=x+8

Since the y value is isolated I can just substitute the right side of the y= equation into the original like so

1.29x+1.89(x+8)=37.38

I then distributed the 1.89 to each of the terms in the parentheses

1.29x+1.89x+15.12=37.38

I then combined like terms to get

3.18x+15.12=37.38

Then you subtract 15.12 from both sides to get

3.18x=22.26

and last we divide both sides by 3.18 to get

x=7

Now that we have x, we still need to solve for y, so I take the original equation y=x+8 and substitute in the value we solved for x to get

y=7+8

y=15

Don't forget the labels you gave each variable earlier in the problem when answering!

Answer 2

Answer:

She is buying 7 bottles and 15 canvases of paint

Step-by-step explanation: