Question

a plumbing supply store sells four times as many gas stoves as wood burning stoves. if sales for the month of both types totales 65 stoves, how many gas stoves were sold??

Answer 1

Let gas and wood be the number of gas stoves and wood burning stoves respectively. Solve the following for gas and wood:\[{gas = 4*wood, gas + wood = 65}\]\[\{\text{gas}=52,\text{wood}=13\} \]