Aisha owns an apparel store. She bought some shirts and jeans from a wholesaler for $3,900. Each shirt cost $12 and each pair of jeans cost $28. If she sold the shirts at 70% profit and jeans at 125% profit, her total profit was $3,885. How many shirts and jeans did she buy from the wholesalers?
You need to use system of equations here Create an equation for the cost per garment Make x and y equal to either the shirts of jeans cost per shirt + cost per jean = total cost from wholesaler Another equation for the profit for the clothes Use the equation from the first equation to get the second Multiply the % profit by each garment cost per shirt * (1+ % profit per shirt)+ cost per jean * (1+% profit per jean) = total cost from wholesaler + total profit Once you have those, set them equal to each other and solve for x and y [Or graph this if you are allowed to]
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