Question

System of equationsAriel bought several bags of Carmel candy and taffy. Taffy bags weigh 8 ounces each and Carmel bags weigh 16 ounces each. The total of all the bags of candy was 400 ounces and she bought a total of 35 bags.Write a system of equations representing this problem

Answer 1

Let c be the total number of carmel candy bags and t the total number of taffy bags that Ariel bought. Then, we have:

$\begin{gathered} I)\text{ }c+t=35 \\ II)\text{ }16c+8t=400 \end{gathered}$