A shirt and a tie cost $55.00. The shirt is $50.00 more than the tie. How much is the tie?

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anonymous · Answer

Its not 5 lol *Its not five dollars and no tax

anonymous · Answer

its a trick problem that i need EVERYONES help with please

anonymous · Answer

no tax

aravindg · Answer

Instead of giving direct answers why don't we try to help the user get to the answer?

mathmale · Answer

@girlover:  One of the goals of this site is to help others learn to solve their own problems.  Please do not do others' work for them, and especially do NOT provide answers.

anonymous · Answer

no its a trick question tat i cant solve

mathmale · Answer

This is an algebra problem.  Let t=price of tie, and s=price of shirt.
The buyer spends $55.  How do we write an algebraic equation that represents this fact?

mathmale · Answer

and how is the price of the shirt related to the price of the tie?  Write another algebraic equation expressing this fact.

anonymous · Answer

its for another teacher, no one in able to solve it for her

aravindg · Answer

@harrisboy326  Have you tried forming the algebraic equation?

mathmale · Answer

Would you mind trying to write the two necessary algebraic equations, please?

shiraz14 · Answer

Or you can do it in a simple diagrammatic way like this:

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This is an elementary method for solving this problem. The size of the rectangles for both the tie and the shirt (excluding the rectangle labeled $50) are the same.