Walmart sells thermometers 4 and hot water bottles 3 In Dece

Walmart sells thermometers ($4) and hot water bottles ($3). In December, Walmart\'s total sales were $1, 012. Customers bought 2 times as many thermometers as hot water bottles. How many of each did Walmart sell?

Solution

Let the bottle sold be X.

Total Cost of bottles sold = 3X.

then thermometers sold will be 2X.

Total Cost of thermometers sold =4(2X)=8X

Then

Total Cost of bottles sold + Total Cost of thermometers sold = 1012

3X + 8X =1012

11X =1012

X=1012/11

X =92

So Total number of bottles sold is 92.

Then Total number of thermometer sold is 2x92=184.