Question

4) Not including tax, a total of 19 pens and markers cost $11.50. The pens cost $0.25 each, and the markers cost $0.75 each. Which system of equations could be used to solve for the number of pens (p) and the number of markers (m) bought?

Answer 1

19×0.25+19-x*0.75=11.50
Use this equation