Student council is selling Roses and Candy Grams for Valentine's Day. Each Candy Gram costs $1.50 and each Rose costs $2.00. The student council made $368 from their sales. They sold a total of 217
Roses and Candy Grams. How many roses were sold? Show all your work for full marks! (Solve the linear
system using substitution or elimination).
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Let c represent
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Number of Roses sold = 132

Number of Candy Grams sold = 85

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the number of Roses sold =

Let the number of Candy Grams sold =

Cost of one Rose = $1.50

Cost of Roses = $1.50

Cost of one Candy Gram = $2.00

Cost of Candy Grams =  

Total number of Roses and Candy Grams sold = 217

i.e.

Total cost = $368

Writing equation as per question statement:

Using elimination method, let us eliminate of the two equations.

Multiplying equation (1) with 2 and subtracting equation (2) from it:

By equation (1):

So, the answer is:

Number of Roses sold = 132

Number of Candy Grams sold = 85

the correct answer is 828.07