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Systems of Equation Problems
Lisa sold sweatshirts to raise money for her class. The large sizes were $ 20 and the smalls were $17. She sold fifty in all. If Lisa raised $910 in all how many of the sweatshirts were larges and how many were smalls?
You and 5 of your friends are at a bake sale. At the sale cookies, cupcakes, pie slices, and brownies are some of the items being sold. Cookies and brownies come in packs of 2. In your group everyone wants either 1 pack of cookies or 1 pack of brownies each. A pack of cookies costs $2, and a pack of brownies cost $3. If you and your friends spend a total of $16 how many people in your group got a pack of cookies, and how many got a pack of brownies?
8 people go to the movies. They buy soda and popcorn. Soda costs $2.00 and popcorn costs $1.50. If they spend a total of $22.00, and buy 12 items, how many of each item did they buy?
Peter, Paul, and Mary are going to a theater to see the fantastic new Harry Potter movie with 3 of their friends. After buying their tickets for $11.50 each, they decide that they are hungry and they want to give away all their remaining allowances, so they go for popcorn and sour patch kids. Peter and Mary buy popcorn, while Paul and their three friends get sour patch kids. Popcorn is $5.00 for a medium and sour patch kids are $3.00 for a package. They spent $34.00. How many of each snack did they purchase?
Alan and Sara are selling tickets to the school basketball game. Adults cost $4 each and students cost $3 each. 185 people bought tickets to go to the game. If they sold a total of $ 627 in tickets, how many adults and students did they sell tickets to?
Greg is in charge of handling entrance fees for the 2010 PSP (Paintball Sports Promotions) World Cup. The cost for entering the tournament is $500 for a Professional-Ranked team, and $350 for a Division 1 team. There are 23 teams registered (in both divisions combined) for the event. If the total amount of money collected is $10,000, how many teams are in each division?
The cost of tickets for a football game is $4.00 for adults and $2.00 for children. 200 tickets were sold and $620 was collected. How many tickets of each type were sold?
Anthony and Grace go clothes shopping at the mall. They buy 24 shirts and pants altogether. If shirts cost $20 and pants cost $18, then how many shirts and pants did they buy if they spent $458?
Mrs. Weasley needs to buy Fred and George some new books and quills. Quills are $6 (13.04 sickles) and books cost $14 (30.43 sickles). If Mrs. Weasley spends $176 (382.6 sickles), how many quills and books did she buy?
A group of 10 friends go to a concert. The tickets cost $117.35 each. However, some of the friends already bought their tickets online for $74.65 each. In total, they spent $1,045.40 on their tickets. How many people bought their ticket online?
Hannah and Amanda went to the movies with 7 of their friends making a total of 9 people. Movie tickets for girls are $3.00 and for boys $6.00. The total for all the movie tickets was $36.00. How many girl tickets and boy tickets were purchased?
Sally has a lemonade stand. Pink lemonade costs fifty cents and yellow lemonade costs seventy-five cents. At the end of the day, Sally made a profit of $12.50. If, in that day, Sally sold 20 cups of lemonade, how many cups of each flavor did she sell?
Shantel is buying her and her 5 friends snacks at the concession stand at a Miley Cyrus concert. The concession stand only sells popcorn for $2.50 and Nachos for $4.00. Everyone bought only one item, and the total was $21.00. How many people got popcorn, and how many people ate nachos?
