Question

joe's custom kitchen supplies sells handmade forks and spoon s. it cost $2 to buy the supplies to make a fork and $1 to buy supplies to make a spoon. they sell forks for $6 and spoons for $5. Last April joes store spent $50 on supplies. they sold the finishing product for a total of $182. how many forks and spoons did they sell last April.

Answer 1

There is probably a way to find this with an algebraic expression but i dont know how to, so i will use trial and error.
1(16)+2(17)=50
5(16)+6(17)=182
They made 17 forks and 16 spoons.