Thread: system of equations solved by algebraic method

anyone can suggest in practical real life about system of equations involving x and y.....a motivation and examples where my classmate be able to understand it will when it involve x and y....


please do help me in my report....thanks in advance

Originally Posted by jam2011

anyone can suggest in practical real life about system of equations involving x and y.....a motivation and examples where my classmate be able to understand it will when it involve x and y....


please do help me in my report....thanks in advance

Business applications. If you do a search on MHF, you should be able to find system of equations questions related to prices of goods.

A mother has $5.80 to buy some fruit for her extended family.

She needs at least 9 pieces of fruit, in this case apples and pears are preffered.

When going to the market she notes apples are worth $0.60 each while pears are $0.70 each.

Let X be the number of apples and Y be the number of pears. How many of each can she buy for this amount of money given the costs of each?

Solve the system