Question

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The local pizzeria sold 264 slices of pizza totaling $810.00. Cheese pizza costs $2.50 a slice and pepperoni pizza costs $3.25 a slice. How many slices of each pizza were sold? Let c represent cheese pizza and p represent pepperoni pizza.
A. c = 64, p = 200
B. c = 72, p = 192
C. c = 132, p = 132
D. c = 200, p = 64

Answer 1

cheese slices = c
pepperoni slices = p

what 's "c" and "p"? well, we dunno

but we know they sold 264 of those... so we can say that
\(\bf c+p=264\)

so "c" is $2.50 each, and "p" is $3.25 each, they sold total of $810, so we can say that they sold 2.50 * c " of cheese slices" and 3.25 * p " of pepperoni slices"

so we could say that

\(\bf 2.5c+3.25p = 810\)

so you have a system of equations, solve by substitution

Answer 2

64 and 200 so A