A landscaping company has two orders for bushes and trees.
Order 1 for 12 bushes and 15 trees that will cost the customer $600
Order 2 for 8 bushes and 20 trees that will cost the customer $680
What is the cost of one bush?

Question

A landscaping company has two orders for bushes and trees.
Order 1 for 12 bushes and 15 trees that will cost the customer $600
Order 2 for 8 bushes and 20 trees that will cost the customer $680
What is the cost of one bush?

geerky42 · Answer

translate this to math language and you have $12b+15t = 600\8b+20t=680$

Where b is bushes and t is trees

anonymous · Answer

yeah thats as far as i got

geerky42 · Answer

so you can see that you have system equations to solve

let's solve for t first, so we can sub in another equation to solve b for

so start by isolate t in first equation. what do you get?

anonymous · Answer

uh.....quite frankly i dont know the next step