During the football game, the parents of the football players sell pretzles and popcorn to raise money for new uniforms. They charge $2.50 for a bag of popcorn and $2 for a pretzel. The parents collect $336 in sales during the game. They sell twice as many bags of popcorn as pretzles. How many bags of popcorn do they sell? How many pretzels do they sell?

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Eden Medina

Mathematics

11 March, 04:34

During the football game, the parents of the football players sell pretzles and popcorn to raise money for new uniforms. They charge $2.50 for a bag of popcorn and $2 for a pretzel. The parents collect $336 in sales during the game. They sell twice as many bags of popcorn as pretzles. How many bags of popcorn do they sell? How many pretzels do they sell?

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Highbeam · Answer 1

They sell 96 bags of popcorn and 48 pretzels.

x is num of pretzels:

2.5 (2x) + 2x = 336

7x = 336, x = 48

This means 48 pretzels, and twice that or 96 popcorn bags.