Molly's Custom Kitchen Supplies sells handmade forks and spoons.

It costs the store $1.70 to buy the supplies to make a fork and $1.30 to buy the supplies to make a spoon.

The store sells forks for $5.60 and spoons for $5.40.

Last April, Molly's Custom Kitchen Supplies spent $37.90 on materials for forks and spoons. They sold the finished products for a total of $147.20.

How many forks and how many spoons did they make?

Molly's custom kitchen supplies spent $37.90 on supplies to make forks and spoons, selling them for a total of $147.20. By setting up and solving a system of equations, we find that they made 10 forks and 20 spoons in the month of April. ;

Answered by JohnCothran | 2024-06-24

let the no of forks be x and no of spoon be y 1.7x + 1.3y = 37.9 5.6x + 5.4y = 147.2 solving for x and y, we get multiplying eqn 1 by 5.6 and equation 2 by 1.7 we get 9.52x + 7.28y = 212.24 9.52x + 9.18y = 250.24 subsrtracting eqns we get 7.28y - 9.18y = 212.24 - 250.24 1.9y = 38 y = 20 x = (37.9 -1.3*20)/1.7 = 7

Answered by soniaagarwal09 | 2024-06-25

Molly's Custom Kitchen Supplies made 7 forks and 20 spoons based on the material costs and sales revenue. By setting up a system of equations and solving for the number of each item produced, we find these quantities. This allows us to understand the cost-effectiveness of their products.
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Answered by soniaagarwal09 | 2024-09-30