Question

A local gift shop sold bags of candy and cookies for Halloween. Bags of candy cost $5.00, and bags of cookies cost $4.50, and sales equaled $47.00 in total. There were 2 more bags of cookies than candy sold.

Find the number of bags of candy and cookies sold by the gift shop.

# of bags of candy = ____

# of bags of cookies = ____

Answer 1

@mathmate

Answer 2

one sec

Answer 3

4 cookies and 6 candy

Answer 4

ok maddox

Answer 5

@maddox1000
Generally, you would set up two variables,
C=number of Candies, and
B=number of cookies
and since we know that Candies outnumber cookies by 2, so
C-B=2
Also, total cost = 5C+4.5B = 47
you would solve for C and B to get the number of packages of candies and cookies.
Remember that there are more cookies than candies.

There is a way you can actually solve this problem in your head without setting up equations. If you're interested, let me know.