Question

Billy‘s restaurant ordered 200 flowers for Mother’s Day. They ordered carnations at one dollar each, roses at two dollars each,And daisies at $3 each.They ordered mostly carnations,and 20 fewer roses than daisies.The total order cam to $500.how many of each type of flower was ordered

Answer 1

Data

• Total flowers: 200 flowers

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• Carnations (c): $1

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• Roses (r): $2

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• Daisies (d): $3

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• They ordered mostly carnations

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• 20 fewer roses than daisies

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• Total order: $500

Procedure

Building our equations

• Equation 1

$c+r+d=200$

• Equation 2

$r=d-20$

• Equation 3

$c+2r+3d=500$

We can replace Equation 2 in Equation 1 and solve for c:

$c+(d-20)+d=200$$c+d-20+d=200$$c+2d=200+20$