John spent $201 shirts and pants for work. shirts cost $27 and pants cost $22. if he bought a total of 8 articles of clothing, then how many of each kind did he buy?

John bought 5 shirts and 3 pairs of pants

The question is kind of confusing. if it's asking how many variations of answers can you give. then do 4^5 for your answer.this would be something like the first question could be a and the 2nd c or first b next c etc. if you can, ask the teacher for a better confirmation of what it's asking. if i'm assuming correctly what it's asking, it's 625 different variations.