During a football game, the parents of the football players sell pretzels and popcorn to raise money for new uniforms. They charge $2.50 for a bag of popcorn and $2.00 for a pretzel. They parents collect $336 in sales during the game. They sell twice as many bags of popcorn as pretzels.
How many bags of popcorn do they sell?
How many pretzels do they sell?

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Question

During a football game, the parents of the football players sell pretzels and popcorn to raise money for new uniforms. They charge $2.50 for a bag of popcorn and $2.00 for a pretzel. They parents collect $336 in sales during the game. They sell twice as many bags of popcorn as pretzels. 
How many bags of popcorn do they sell?
How many pretzels do they sell?

Please show your work(:

anonymous · Answer

let popcorn=x 
let pretzels=y 

2.5x+2y=336 is the equation 

y=x/2 

2.5x+(2(x/2)=336 
2.5x+x=336 
3.5x=336 
x=336/3.5 
x=96 
y=48

anonymous · Answer

Thanks(: