A sorority held a bake sale to raise money and sold brownies and chocolate chip cookies. They priced the brownies at $2 and the chocolate chip cookies at $1. They raised $260 and sold 190 items.
How many brownies and how many cookies were sold?
Let's say x is the number of brownies sold.
And y is the number of chocolate chip cookies sold.
According to the given inforamtion,
x + y = 190 ...(1)
$2x + $1y = $260 ...(2)
Now using equation (1), we can express y as:
y = 190 - x
Substituting this value of y in equation (2), we get:
$2x + $1(190-x) = $260
Simplifying and solving for x, we get:
$x = 40$
Substituting the value of x in equation (1), we get:
40 + y = 190
Solving for y, we get:
$y = 150$
Therefore, 40 brownies and 150 chocolate chip cookies were sold.