Question

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1. At a fundraiser breakfast, the bill for three glasses of orange juice and five pancake specials is $7.60, whereas the bill for one glass of orange juice and two pancake specials is $2.90.
a. Write a system of two equations to model this problem. Let j stand for the price of a glass of juice and let p stand for the price of a pancake special.
b. Use substitution to solve the system of equations.
c. What would be the bill for one glass of orange juice and one pancake special?
Answer:

Answer 1

this is an exercise in two things:
first convert words to equations
second - solve simultaneous equations.

Let j stand for the price of a glass of juice and let p stand for the price of a pancake special.

using j and p write an equation for the first bit of information:
three glasses of orange juice and five pancake specials is $7.60


THEN write ANOTHER eqution for
one glass of orange juice and two pancake specials is $2.90