Let be the number of T-shirts.
Let be the number of hats.
Observe the table:
\The cost and sale price of each item is shown.
\The boosters spend a total of on T-shirts and hats.
The total selling price on T-shirts and hats make .
Find how many T-shirts did they sell.
\Cost price: .
Sales price: .
The system of equations is and
.
Solve the equations and find the value.
(Cost price)
(Subtract
from each side)
(Apply additive inverse property:
)
(Divide each side by
)
(Divide each side by
)
Find the value.
(Sales price)
(Substitute
)
(Distributive property:
)
(Subtract
from each side)
(Apply additive inverse property:
)
(Multiply each side by
)
(Multiply)
Therefore, they sold T-shirts.
They sold T-shirts.