Abby and Katy are selling cheesecakes. There are apple and pecan cheesecakes. Abby sold 14 pecan and 3 apple cheesecakes for a total of $113. Katy sold 7 pecan and 8 apple cheesecakes for a total of $180. What's the cost of one pecan cheesecake and one apple cheesecake? How would I set this up?

If you want to set up the equations:

let the cost of one apple cheesecake be and the cost of one pecan cheesecake be $p$

from Abby, $14p+3a=113$

and from Katy....?

then solve for both variables

can you take it from here?

answer: the answer is one of

step-by-step explanation:   we are given to write a proper fraction where the whole is divided into an even number of equal parts less than ten, and an odd number of those parts exist.

an even number less than 10 may be one of 2, 4, 6 or 8. so, the whole may be one of these four evens.

now, an odd number of these parts must exist, so the numerator must be an odd number, one of 1, 3, 5 or 7. it cannot be 9 because then the fraction will become improper.

thus, our fraction may be one of the following

so, converting firstly the mixed fractions to improper fractions and then "adding".