Question

What is the cost for each chocolate gift basket?

Answer 1

We have a system of equations

`\begin{gathered} 6x+5y=300 \\ 3x+7y=285 \end{gathered}`

we will multiply -2 the second equations

`-6x-14y=-570`

we sum the first equation and the equation above

`\begin{gathered} -9y=-270 \\ y=(-270)/(-9) \\ y=30 \end{gathered}`

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