Question

Mai sells boxes of cookies for $10 each. Deandre sells boxes of cookies for $8 each. Each of them sold the same dollar amount. It was the smallest dollaramount for which this was possible.Answer the following questions.What was the dollar amount each of them sold?soHow many boxes did Mal sell?boxesHow many boxes did Deandre sell?boxes

Answer 1

Given:

Mai sells boxes of cookies for $10 each.

Deandre sells boxes of cookies for $8 each.

Let they sold for the amount of $40 each. [40 is the LCM of 8 &10]

Let x be the number of boxes sold by Mai and y be the number of boxes sold by Deandre.

Dollar amount each of them sold is $40.

`\begin{gathered} \text{Number of boxes sold by Mai=10x} \\ 40=10x \\ x=4 \end{gathered}`

Number of boxes sold by Mai is 4.

`\begin{gathered} \text{Number of boxes sold by Deandre=8y} \\ 40=8y \\ y=5 \end{gathered}`

Number of boxes sold by Deandre is 5.