a hardware store ordered cartons of hammers at 100$ per carton and cartons wrenches at 150$ per carton if there were a total of 25 cartons in this order And the total cost of the order was 3,000$ how many cartons of hammers were ordered

15 cartons of Hammers were ordered

Step-by-step explanation:

Cost per carton of Hammer  = $100

Cost per carton of Wrenches = $150

Total Carton = 25

Total Cost = $3,000

Required

Determine the numbers of Hammer and Wrenches

Represent the hammers with H and the wrenches with W

So;

and

Make W the subject of formula in the first equation:

Substitute 25 - H for W in the second equation

Collect Like Terms

Divide both sides by -50

Hence, 15 cartons of Hammers were ordered

this story was prepared by jim

mccullaugh in los angeles and

al stewart in new york.

new york the colossal success of "top gun" appears to have dramatically altered madison avenue's

perception of corporate sponsorship

of home video projects.

the paramount home video re- lease, featuring a 60- second diet

pepsi spot, was by no means the

first prerecorded video to carry an advertiser's plug, but it was the

first major theatrical release to do so. in the aftermath of the title's

success, paramount is widely ex- pected to ink a similar deal for

"crocodile dundee" or "star trek

iv" or both.

corporate america's new attraccds push british

recording sales

to 19% gain

london fueled by the compact

disk boom, the value of u.k. manu- facturer shipments of recordings

rose 19% in the 12 -month period ended march 1987, according to the

british phonographic industry.

total value of u.k. shipments for

the period was $755 million for all

configurations. (all value figures

are based on an exchange rate of

$1.68 to the pound sterling.)

cd sales totaled 10.7 million units

worth $121.3 million- compared

with 3.7 million units worth $39.5

million in the prior 12 months -and

accounted for two -thirds of the

overall gain in trade value. at present growth rates, says the bpi, cd

sales for calendar 1987 will reach 20

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step-by-step explanation:

- both graphs increase on their domain.

- the graphs of both functions have the same x-intercept.

- neither graph has a y-intercept.