Brad wants to buy flowers for his friend with $39 the daises are $1 each and the roses are $3 each he buys 3 more daises then roses how much did the roses cost?

Mathematics · High School · Sun Jan 24 2021

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Answered on Wed May 11 2022

So let's choose x to represent the number of roses he buys.

That means that x + 3 is the number of daisies.

Now the roses are $3 each, so the total cost of the roses he buys is 3x.

And the daisies are $1 each, so the total cost of the daisies is 1 (x + 3) = x + 3.

So the total amount he spends is the sum of those two, 3x + (x + 3) = 4x + 3.

And we know that that is equal to $39

4x + 3 = 39

Let's solve it:

4x + 3 = 39

4x + 3 - 3 = 39 - 3

4x = 36

4x / 4 = 36 / 4

x = 9

So he buys 9 roses and 12 daisies.