Question

Isaiah and Cooper work at a dry cleaners ironing shirts. Isaiah can iron 25 shirts per hour, and Cooper can iron 30 shirts per hour. Cooper worked twice as many hours as Isaiah and they ironed 340 shirts between them. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of hours Isaiah worked and the number of hours Cooper worked. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

Answer 1

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Explanation:

`25x + 30y = 340\\y = 2x\\`

x=number of hours Isaiah worked.

y=number of hours Cooper worked