Question

You are buying bags of flour and bags of sugar for a bakery. You must buy three times as many bags of sugar as there is bags of flour. Also, you are on a budget of $720. Of flour costs $6 per bag and sugar costs $4 per bag, how many bags of flour and how many bags of sugar can you buy

Answer 1

The number of bags of flour and bags of sugar you can buy are respectively; 80 and 240 bags

How to solve algebra word problems?

Let bags of flour be x and let bags of sugar be y

You must buy three times as many bags of sugar as there is bags of flour.

Thus; 3x = y

Now, flour costs $6 per bag and sugar costs $4 per bag. Thus;

6x + 4y = 720

Thus;

6x + 3x = 720

9x = 720

x = 720/9

x = 80

y = 3 * 80 = 240

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