Question

A person spent rupees 564 in buying pens and pencils if cost of each pen is rupees 7 and each Pencil is rupees 3 and if the total number of things bought was 108 how many of each type did he busy

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

let the number of pens be x

number of pencils =108-x

cost of pens =7x

cost of pencils =3(108-x)

7x+3(108-x) =564

7x+324-3x=564

4x=564-324

4x=240x=240/4

x=60

number of pens=60

number of pencils =180-60=48