Q:

The drama club is selling short-sleeved shirts for $5 each, and long-sleeved shirts for $10 each. They hope to sell all of the shirts they ordered, to earn a total of $1,750. After the first week of the fundraiser, they sold  1/3 of the short-sleeved shirts and  1/2of the long-sleeved shirts, for a total of 100 shirts.This system of equations models the situation.   5x + 10y = 1,7501/3x + 1/2y = 100Let x represent the number of short-sleeved shirts ordered and let y represent the number of long-sleeved shirts ordered.How many short-sleeved shirts were ordered?How many long-sleeved shirts were ordered?

Accepted Solution

A:
150 short-sleeved shirts
100 long-sleeved shirts