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The students at Jefferson middle school are raising money for a charity by selling t shirts and hats. The number of t shirts sold was 3 times the number of hats. The profit was 5 dollars for each t shirt sold and 2.50 dollars for each hat sold. The students raised 840 dollars for the charity. They used the system below to analyze their success and found the solution

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Answer: 144 t-shirts and 48 hats.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's define:

T = number of t-shirts sold.

H = number of hats sold.

We know that:

"The number of t-shirts sold was 3 times the number of hats"

Then:

T = 3*H

We also know that the profit was $5 for each t-shirt and $2.50 for each hat, then the total profit is written as:

T*$5 + H*$2.50

And we know that the total profit is $840, then we have the equation:

T*$5 + H*$2.50 = $840

Then we have the system of equations:

T = 3*H

T*$5 + H*$2.50 = $840

To solve this, we already have a variable isolated in one of the equations (T), then we can just replace it in the other equation:

(3*H)*$5 + H*$2.50 = $840

Now we can solve this for H.

H*$15 + H*$2.50 = $840

H*$17.50 = $840

H = $840/$17.50 = 48

This means that there were sold 48 hats.

Now if we use the equation T = 3*H we can find the number of t-shirts sold

T = 3*48 = 144

There where 144 t-shirts sold.

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