When Jonathan bought 12 peaches and pears, at $1.50 per peach and at $1.60 per pear, the total price was $18.50. How many peaches and pears did he buy, respectively? Fill in the blanks provided and solve for the answer.
Explanation: you will need to make two equations to represent the problem X being for peaches and y for pears x+y= 12 1.5x + 1.6y= 18.5
We are going to use the elimination method and so we need to cancel either x or y in this case x. So we multiple the top equation by -1.5 -1.5x - 1.5y = -18 1.5x + 1.6y = 18.5
Then we can cancel the x since they are opposite and we can add the rest 0.1y =0.5 Y= 5 Then we can substitute the y into one of the equations x + 5= 12 x= 7
