A publisher needs to send many books to a local book retailer and will send the books in a combination of small and large boxes. Each small box can hold 25 books and each large box can hold 50 books. There were 3 more large boxes sent than small boxes, which altogether can hold 450 books. Determine the number of small boxes sent and the number of large boxes sent. There were small boxes sent and large boxes sent.

Well your answer will be 3 small boxes and 6 large boxes

Step-by-step explanation:

It says there is 3 more large boxes sent than small boxes so all together it can hold 450 books? then there were 6 large boxes = 300 giving 3 small boxes= 150 giving your total to 450

there were 4 small boxes sent and 7 large boxes sent

Step-by-step explanation:

let s= number of small boxes

let y= number of small boxes

each small box can hold 25 books, so s small boxes can hold 25s books. Each large box can hold 50 books, so l large boxes can hold 50lbooks. Therefore, the total number of books 25s+50l equals 450.

Since there were 3 more large boxes sent than small boxes, if we add 3 to the number of small boxes, we will get the number of large boxes, meaning l equals s+3.

system of equations:

25s+50l=450

l=s+3

substitute values

just find the gcf and solve the gcf's until you get each answer i have a really good feeling somethings missing xd (like the dimensions of the fence) *cough *cough *hint *hint

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