The school cafeteria sells apples for $0.25 and pears for $1.15. On Thursday they sold 9 pieces of fruit earning a total of $4.95. How many of each item did they sell?

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Step-by-step explanation:

Let p represent the number of pears sold. Then 9-p is the number of apples sold. The total revenue was ...

  0.25(9 -p) + 1.15p = 4.95

  0.90p +2.25 = 4.95 . . . . . . collect terms

  0.90p = 2.70 . . . . . . . . . . subtract 2.25

  p = 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . divide by 0.90

They sold 3 pears and 6 apples on Thursday.

a

step-by-step explanation:

step-by-step explanation:

no, her answer is not correct.   we square the lengths of all sides and then determine whether the pythagorean theorem holds here:

9² + 15² = 306.   this is not equal to the square of the longest side ( that square being 395.   answer c is correct.