The cost of 12 oranges and 7 apples is $5.36. Eight oranges and 5 apples cost $3.68. How do you find the cost of each?
1 Answer
Jan 18, 2017
I found:
Oranges:
Apples:
Explanation:
Let us call the cost of oranges
and
we can extract from the first:
we substitute this into the second equation for
solve for
use this value bach into the first equation: