Question

Penelope is raising money for a school trip by selling bags of chips and fruit snacks. The price of each bag of chips is $1.75 and the price of each fruit snack is $1.50. Yesterday Penelope made $42.50 and sold 15 more bags of chips than fruit snacks. Determine the number of bags of chips sold and the number of fruit snacks sold.

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

let bags of fruits be x

no. of chips = x+15

total income $42.5

income of each snack = 1.75x + 1.50 (x+15)= 42.5

1.75x + 1.5x +22.5= 42.5

2.25x=22.5

x = 10 = no .of fruit snacks

x+15 = 10 +15

no. of chip bags= 25