A concession-stand manager buys bottles of water and soda to sell at a football game. The manager needs to buy a total of 4,500 drinks and have 25% more water than soda. Let w be the number of bottles of water and let s be the number of bottles of soda. Create a system of equations the manager could use to find out how many bottles of water and soda to buy.

can someone help me?

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A concession-stand manager buys bottles of water and soda to sell at a football game. The manager needs to buy a total of 4,500 drinks and have 25% more water than soda. Let w be the number of bottles of water and let s be the number of bottles of soda. Create a system of equations the manager could use to find out how many bottles of water and soda to buy.

can someone help me?

study312 · Answer

https://www.wyzant.com/resources/answers/178805/a_concession_stand_manager_buys_bottles_of_water_and_soda_to_sell_at_a_football_game

anonymous · Answer

i can't find the answer and i don't get it at all

study312 · Answer

at the bottom of that page it says:
Answer:
 
The number of bottles of water equals 2500 and the number of bottles of soda equals 2000.

anonymous · Answer

yeah but my question is asking me to solve for W first