Red roses cost $3 each. Pink roses cost $2 each. A man buys 24 flowers for his wife with some pink roses and the rest red roses. The total cost of the flowers is $68. Write a system of equations to model this situation and use the equation to determine how many red and how many link roses he bought

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12 November, 01:36

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Gauge Becker · Answer 1

Theres an idea on how to start you could solve by elimination or substitution!

Turbo · Answer 2

Let the no. of red rose be R,

Let the no. of pink rose be P.

$3*R+$2*P = $68

R+P=24

R=24-P

3 (24-P) + 2P=68

72-3P+2P=68

P=4

R=20