The Football team is selling t-shirts to raise $. They charge $12.00 for short sleeve shirts, and they charge $16.00 for long sleeve shirts. They sold a total of 47 shirts, and they made $684.00.

Question

Write the 2 equations to represent the problem?

How many of each type did they sell?

Answer 1

12S + 16L = 684

S + L = 47, multiply both sides by 12 to get

12S + 12L = 564

subtract last equation from the 1st to eliminate one variable

4L = 120

L = 120/4 = 30 long sleeve shirts sold

S = 47-30 = 17 short sleeve shirts sold