Question

A local florist charges $8 for a red rose and $10 for a white rose. He sold twice as many red roses as white roses for a total income of $8,554 for the day. How many roses did he sell all together?

Answer 1

Lets say he sold x number of white roses

Then according to the question red roses are twice the number of the white roses sold which means 2x

Total income earned will now be x + 2x = $8554

3x = $8554 => x = $2851

Which means he earned $2851 by selling white roses.

But question is we need to find the number of white roses sold

In the question they mentioned cost of each white rose is 10$

so number of white roses sold = 2851/10 = 285 :)

And red roses are obviously twice the white roses which is equal to = 570

So total roses sold will be 570 + 285 = 855 :)