At a sandwich shop, sandwiches cost $1.50 each and fruit drinks At cost $.40 each. If a bill for an order of 20 items was $17.00, how many fruit drinks were ordered?
1 Answer
Number of fruit drinks ordered were 12.
Explanation:
Given that:
Cost of one sandwich = $ 1.50 and
Cost of one fruit drink = $0 .40 .
An order of 20 items was placed.
And the bill was $17.00.
Asked: How many fruit drinks were ordered?
Solution:
Let the number of sandwiches be ordered be
So the number of fruit drinks ordered will be =
Cost of
and
Cost of
=
The bill will be : cost of sandwiches + cost of fruit drinks.
=
We know that the total bill was $17.00 . That means,
$ 8 + $1.10x =$ 17.00#
Number of sandwiches is
so number of fruit drinks will be
Therefore
Number of fruit drinks ordered were 12.
