The drama club is selling short-sleeved shirts for $5
each, and long-sleeved shirts for $10 each. they hope to
sell al of the shirts they ordered, to eam a total of
$1,750. after the first week of the fundraiser, they sold
leir represent the number of short-sleeved shirts
ordered and let y represent the number or long-sleeved
shirts ordered
how many short-sleeved shirts were ordered?
50
= 150
how many long-sleeved shirts were ordered?
100
of the short-sleeved shirts and of the long-sleeved
shirts for a total of 100 shirts.
this system of equations models the situation.
5x + 10y = 1,750
x+y=100