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Okay as seti math shmoop er's first our condolences What

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you have to do here And second Well let's Keep

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going Tracking shipping farce of iron bars of cover of

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ours One of our ways with pounds of iron bar

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weighs one pound entire shipment weighs two thousand six hundred

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seventy pounds and are a total of six hours of

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metal Filing systems of equations accurately represents See the number

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of copper bars and i the number of iron bars

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Okay when you answer these always look first at the

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answer sets Sometimes they'll throw in a d or a

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letter e or a w in there And you could

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just cross that off and get a freebie and improve

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your odds of getting the right answer But here they

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give you no such favors So let's prove our math

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medal medal there Alright by diving right into this problem

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it says that c is the number of copper bars

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and that i is the number of iron bars Well

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it also says there are a total of sixty bars

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of metal either one So we can add up both

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types to arrive at the first equation Right So c

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plus size sixty weigh in one more factor The wait

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wait though the way copper bars weigh fifty pounds each

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so give See a coefficient of fifty iron bars weigh

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forty pounds each so i get to go efficient They're

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a forty right forty i The total weight is two

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thousand six hundred seventy that's total so that's what everything

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that should equal right fifty c plus forty eyes to

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six Seven Oh put these two equations together to get

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the system of equations that we need that c plus

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size sixty and fifty c plus forty i is twenty

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six seventy and that's it the answer's Right there You

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can sort of feel good about yourself go home and

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don't know unwrap a nice metal bar and not eat 00:01:33.315 --> [endTime] it You know lower calories in chocolate bars though

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