Question

A coffee cart sells coffee for $2 and tea for $1.50. On Thursday, a total of 59 cups were used to serve tea and coffee, and the cart operator collected a total of $108.50 from tea and coffee sales.

How many cups of tea and cups of coffee were sold

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

let no of coffee cups be x,then no of tea cups =59-x

so,x×2+(59-x)×1.5=108.50

2x+88-1.5x=108.5

.5x=108.5-88

x/2=20.5

x=41(no of coffee cups)

59-41=18(no of tea cups)

Answer 2

Answer:

your answer would be:

There are 40 cups of coffee and 19 cups of tea sold.