Josh and his friends bought vanilla wafers for $4 per packet and chocolate wafers for $1 per packet at a carnival. They spent a total of $45 to buy a total of 27 packets of wafers of the two varieties.

Part A: Write a system of equations that can be solved to find the number of packets of vanilla wafers and the number of packets of chocolate wafers that Josh and his friends bought at the carnival. Define the variables used in the equations.

Part B: How many packets of chocolate wafers and vanilla wafers did they buy? Explain how you got the answer and why you selected a particular

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Josh and his friends bought vanilla wafers for $4 per packet and chocolate wafers for $1 per packet at a carnival. They spent a total of $45 to buy a total of 27 packets of wafers of the two varieties.

Part A: Write a system of equations that can be solved to find the number of packets of vanilla wafers and the number of packets of chocolate wafers that Josh and his friends bought at the carnival. Define the variables used in the equations. 

Part B: How many packets of chocolate wafers and vanilla wafers did they buy? Explain how you got the answer and why you selected a particular

anonymous · Answer

@ireallylikefood

anonymous · Answer

one minute

anonymous · Answer

@ireallylikefood Thank you so so so much!

anonymous · Answer

well if one this is $4 and the other is $1, since we're talking about money, the total was $45. With this, you now have 4x + y = 45.

Now for the second equation, it'll just be about the items, so x + y = 27. 

Do you think you can solve the system of equations now?

anonymous · Answer

Yes! Thank you! @ireallylikefood

anonymous · Answer

any time