Question

The Community Relief Fund receives a large donation of $2800. The foundation agrees to spend the money on $20 school bags, $25 sweaters, $5 books. They want to buy 200 items and send them to schools in earthquake-hit areas. They must order as many books as school bags and sweaters combined.

Answer 1

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The Community Relief Fund receives a large donation of $2800. The foundation agrees to spend the money on $20 school bags, $25 sweaters, $5 books. They want to buy 200 items and send them to schools in earthquake-hit areas. They must order as many books as school bags and sweaters combined. How many of each item should they order?

Answer:

They must order 40 bags, 60 sweaters and 100 books.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the information provided, you can write the following equations:

x+y+z=200 (1)

20x+25y+5z=2800 (2)

z=x+y (3), where:

x=amount of bags

y=amount of sweaters

z=amount of books

Now, you can replace (3) in (1) and (2):

x+y+x+y=200

2x+2y=200 (4)

20x+25y+5(x+y)=2800

20x+25y+5x+5y=2800

25x+30y=2800 (5)

Then, you will have 2 equations:

2x+2y=200 (4)

25x+30y=2800 (5)

You can isolate x in (4):

2x=200-2y

x=100-y (6)

After this, you can replace (6) in (5):

25(100-y)+30y=2800

2500-25y+30y=2800

5y=2800-2500

y=300/5

y=60

Next, you can replace the value of y in (6) to find the value of x:

x=100-60

x=40

Finally, you can replace the value of x and y in (3) to find the value of z:

z=40+60

z=100

According to this, the answer is that they must order 40 bags, 60 sweaters and 100 books.