mo's farm land sold a total of 165 pounds of Appel's and peaches. She sold apples foe $1.75 per pounds and peaches for $2.50 per pound. If she made $337.50. How many pond of peaches did she sell?
Let x and y be the number of pounds of apple and peaches sold, respectively. With the given prices above, the system of linear equations that would enable us to answer this item is,
x + y = 165 1.75 + 2.5y = 337.50
The values of x and y from the equations are 100 and 65, respectively.
