Question

A grocery store sells pre-cut fruit. Bowls of one type of fruit are $4. Bowls of assorted fruit are $6. In one month, Benjamin paid $84 for 16 bowls of fruit. How many assorted fruit bowls did he buy?



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Answer 1

10 bowls.

Answer 2

How did you get that answer ?

Answer 3

Let x be the no. of bowls of one fruit.
Let y be the no. of bowls of the assorted fruit.
He bought 16 bowls in total so
x + y = 16

The cost of one type of fruit was 4. So the total cost of buying x bowls would be 4x.

The cost of one bowl of assorted fruit was 6. So the total cost of buying y bowls would be 6y.

He spent $84. So; 4x+6y=84

Now solve the two equation by elimination to get the value of y.