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2 September, 14:34

A restaurant freezes a cherry and lime juice mixture to create slushes. Cherry juice costs $5 per quart, and lime juice costs $3 per quart. Each day, the restaurant spends a total of $36 on 8 quarts of juice. The restaurant manager organizes the information in the table below.

A table titled Cherry-Lime Slushies showing Amount in quarts, cost and total. The first row shows Cherry Juice, with c, 5 and 5 c. The second row shows, Lime Juice, with 9 minus c, 3, and 3 left-parenthesis 8 minus c right-parenthesis. The third row shows Mixture, and has, 8, blank, and 36.

Which equation can be used to determine the amount of cherry juice in each mixture?

5c + 3 (8 - c) = 36

5c + 3 (8 - c) = 8

c + (8 - c) = 8

c + 5 = 5c

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  1. 2 September, 14:37
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    Answer: A
  2. 2 September, 14:50
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    5c + 3 (8 - c) = 36

    Step-by-step explanation:

    A restaurant freezes a cherry and lime juice mixture to create slashes. Cherry juice costs $5 per quart, and lime juice costs $3 per quart. Each day, the restaurant spends a total of $36 on 8 quarts of juice.

    Therefore, if there are c quart of cherry juice, then the number of lime juice is (8 - c) quart as the total number of quarts is 8.

    Now, the total cost is $36 and therefore, we can write the equation to find the number of quarts of cherry juice is

    5c + 3 (8 - c) = 36 (Answer)
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