Homework Help: business math

Posted by shannon on Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 12:56am.

chicken delight sells whole-chicken dinners for $12 and half-chicken dinners for $8. yesterday they sold a total of 400 dinners and took in $4200. how many of each size dinners were sold?

business math - drwls, Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 6:19am
Use algebra to solve this. Let x be the number of whole-chicken dinners sold, and y be the number of half-chicken dinners.

x + y = 400 (the number sold)
12x + 6y = 4200 (gross receipts)
12x + 12y = 4800
6y = 600
Two more steps and you will have the answer. You finish the problem.
business math - karan, Friday, January 15, 2010 at 9:57pm
whole 250.half 150
business math - karan, Friday, January 15, 2010 at 9:59pm
whole 250.half 150

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