The drama club is selling short-sleeved shirts for $5 Let x represent the number of short-sleeved shirts each, and long-sleeved shirts for $10 each. They hope to ordered and let y represent the number of long-sleeved
sell all of the shirts they ordered, to earn a total of
shirts ordered
$1,750. After the first week of the fundraiser, they sold
How many short-sleeved shirts were ordered?
1 2 / 2
How many long-sleeved shirts were ordered?
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+2y = 100
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