Word Problem Setups

A university will spend less than $4500 to buy monitors and keyboards. Each monitor will cost $250 and each keyboard will cost $50.

x = monitors and y = keyboards

A customer paid a total of $6.00 for 68 copies. Some of the copies were black/white and some were color. Black/White costs $0.08 and Color costs $0.15.

A grill at a barbecue restaurant will be used to cook sausage Links that are 2 lbs each and briskets that are 6 lbs each. No more than 120 lbs of meat can be cooked. x is links and y is briskets.

A customer paid $64 for 3 large candles and 4 small candles. A second customer paid $4 more than the first for 1 large candle and 8 small candles. x is the large candle and y is the small candle.

A bag contains 18 coins consisting of quarters and dimes. The total value of the coins is $2.85.

A school club purchased a total of 50 cheese pizzas and supreme pizzas. Cheese pizzas cost $10 and supreme cost $12. x is cheese and y is supreme

Printer ink costs $18.99 per cartridge. The company that sells the ink cartridges charges a flat rate shipping fee of $7.95. t is total cost and c is cartridge.