Question

At a farmer’s market, a basket of strawberries costs $20 and a basket of peaches costs $18. On Saturday, $430 worth of strawberries and peaches were sold, and a total of 23 baskets were sold. If x represents baskets of strawberries and y represents baskets of peaches, how many baskets of peaches were sold on Saturday?
20x+18y=430
x+y=23

8 baskets
11 baskets
12 baskets
15 baskets

Answer 1

i got 22 :(

Answer 2

just got to try again.

Answer 3

dont i set it up as
20s+18p=430?

Answer 4

if you are using substitution:

y= (23-x)

put that in the first equation

Answer 5

so 15?

Answer 6

yep 15 peach and 8 strawbry

Answer 7

thanks!

Arianna is buying plants for her garden. She buys 15 flowering plants for $96. Pink flowering plants sell for $8, and purple flowering plants sell for $5. How many pink flowering plants did Arianna buy?
6 plants
7plants
8plants
9 plants
ive set up some equations and solved by ilimination but im getting decimals