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pris2241
May 29, 2012, 07:03 PM
A discount store sold plastic cups for $2.75 each and ceramic cups for $5.50 each. If 500 cups were sold for a total of $1897.50, how many cups of each type were sold? What is the dollar value of each type of cup sold?

paraclete
May 29, 2012, 07:43 PM
A discount store sold plastic cups for $2.75 each and ceramic cups for $5.50 each. If 500 cups were sold for a total of $1897.50, how many cups of each type were sold? What is the dollar value of each type of cup sold?

If I remember correctly this is an algerbraic problem not an accounting problem