Question

at joe's cafe 1 cup of coffee and 3 donuts is $4.10 and 2 cups of coffee and 2 donuts is $4.60, how much is 1 count? 1 cup of coffee?

Answer 1

Set up a system of equations and solve it.

Answer 2

The first step is to pick variables to represent the prices of a cup of coffee and a donut.

For example,
let c = price of 1 cup of coffee
let d = price of 1 donut

Ok so far?

Answer 3

c+3d=4.10 and 2c+2d=4.60

Answer 4

Got it

Answer 5

Correct.
Now solve the system of equations and find the values of c and d.

Answer 6

Correct.
Good job!