Question

A garden supply store sells two types of lawn mowers. The smaller mower costs $249.99 and the larger mower costs $329.99. If the store sells a TOTAL of 23 mowers for $6869.77, how many of each size are sold?

Answer 1

Therefore, ' 19 ' smaller lawn mover and '11' larger lawn mover were sold.
Explanation:
Given:
let the smaller lawn mover be 'x'
let the larger lawn mower be 'y'
According to condition total mover will be
................( 1 )
and total cost will be given as
................( 2 )
To Find:
x =? and y =?
Solution:
Substituting equation 1 in equation 2 we get

Substituting ' y 'in ( 1 ) we get