A gas station sells regular gas for $2.20 per gallon and premium gas for $3.00 a gallon. at the end of a business day 300 gallons of gas has been sold, and receipts totaled $700. how many gallons of each type of gas had been sold
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You can use a system of equations to answer this question.
1st: 2.20r + 3p = 700 is showing how to get the total cost. 2nd: r + p = 300 shows how many gallons were sold.
If we solve r + p = 300 for r, we can then solve the first equation in terms of r only.
r + p =300 p = 300 - r Use this in place of p in the first equation.