At a local plant sale, Janice was selling Golden Barrel Cactus plants and baby Saguaros. During the sale, she sold 5 times as many Saguaros ($6 each) as Golden Barrels ($10 each). She made a total of $720 during the plant sale. How many Saguaros did Janice sell?

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abb0t · Answer

You have 5x saguros.
where x = # of GB sold. If each GB sells for 10 bux, then you have 10x = $ made.

Now, multiply by $6, since you sell them for $6 bux. So that means you have 30x saguros. Which is the amount of $ made selling saguros. 
Now, find the total of BOTH saguros and GB = 30x + 10x = ____
that number is the total sales from $\sf \color{red}{BOTH}$ plants. Which is why you added them.

Set that equal to the total amount of money that you made and solve for x!
 $\sf \color{blue}{HINT}$: divide.

When you have the value for $x$, then you can plug it in to find how much u made for saguros. 

$\sf \color{purple}{HINT}$: $\rightarrow$ 5x $\leftarrow$

anonymous · Answer

thank you very much!