Question hiro-a
Hiro and Sofia purchased shirts and pants from a store. The price of each shirt purchased was the same and the price of each pair of pants purchased was the same. Hiro purchased 4 shirts and 2 pairs of pants for $86, and Sofia purchased 3 shirts and 5 pairs of pants for $166. Which of the following systems of linear equations represents the situation, if x represents the price, in dollars, of each shirt and y represents the price, in dollars, of each pair of pants?
Hiro and Sofia purchased shirts and pants from a store. The price of each shirt purchased
Easy-difficulty · SAT Math · Linear Equations in Two Variables — Writing equations from data/points. Read the question above, select your answer, and check the full explanation below to understand exactly why the correct choice works.
Answer explanation
Choice A is correct. Hiro purchased 4 shirts and each shirt cost x dollars, so he spent a total of 4x dollars on shirts. Likewise, Hiro purchased 2 pairs of pants, and each pair of pants cost y dollars, so he spent a total of 2y dollars on pants. Therefore, the total amount that Hiro spent was 4x + 2y. Since Hiro spent $86 in total, this can be modeled by the equation 4x + 2y = 86. Using the same reasoning, Sofia bought 3 shirts at x dollars each and 5 pairs of pants at y dollars each, so she spent a total of 3x + 5y dollars on shirts and pants. Since Sofia spent $166 in total, this can be modeled by the equation 3x + 5y = 166.
Choice B is incorrect and may be the result of switching the number of shirts Sofia purchased with the number of pairs of pants Hiro purchased. Choice C is incorrect and may be the result of switching the total price each person paid. Choice D is incorrect and may be the result of switching the total price each person paid as well as switching the number of shirts Sofia purchased with the number of pairs of pants Hiro purchased.
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