Question

Kayla owns a food truck that sells tacos and burritos. She sells each taco for $3 and each burrito for $7.25. Yesterday Kayla made a total of $595 in revenue from all burrito and taco sales and there were twice as many burritos sold as there were tacos sold. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of tacos sold and the number of burritos sold. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

Answer 1

So the put a lot of words to make this seem more complicated than it is. Your first equation involves the money. I’m going to use x to represent tacos and y to represent burritos.
3x+7.25y=595 would be your first equation because you know the price of each item already just not how many. The second would involve the twice as many burritos sold than tacos. So that would mean x+2 would equal y
Y=x+2
Hope this helps. If not I can explain it more in detail.