Astore sells both cold and hot beverages. cold beverages cost $1.50, while hot beverages cost $2.00. on saturday, drink receipts totaled $360, and 4 times as many cold beverages were sold as hot beverages.

part 1: write a system of equations to represent the beverage sales on saturday.

part 2: use any solving method you like to solve the system of equations you wrote in part 1. show all of your work.

The number of hot beverages = 45 and number of cold beverages = 180

Step-by-step explanation:

We have to write the equation of hot and cold beverages and find how many of each were sold.

Cost of cold beverage = $1.50

Cost of hot beverage = $2.00

The total cost of beverages on that day totaled to be $360.

We are also told that the number of cold beverages sold is 4 times as many hot beverages.

Let number of hot beverages = x

Cold beverages = 4x

Total cost = $360

= 360

8x = 360

x =

x = 45

The number of hot beverages = 45 and number of cold beverages = 180

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