#20 a shirt costs $15 more than a pair of shorts. terrell paid $101 for 3 shirts and 5 pairs of shorts. how much did each shirts cost?

$22.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent cost of each shirt and y represent cost of each shorts.

We have been given that a shirt costs $15 more than a pair of shorts. We can represent this information in an equation as:

We are also told that Terrell paid $101 for 3 shirts and 5 pairs of shorts. We can represent this information in an equation as:

Upon substituting equation (1) in equation (2), we will get:

Therefore, the cost of each shirt is $22.