The bookstore at suntan u had a sale on school tshirts. Thursday they sold 45 of the marked down shirts for a total of $406.50. If the women's shirts were on sale for $9.25 and the men's shirts were on sale for $8.50, how many of each was sold on Thursday? write a system of equations that represents this information solve the system to find the number women's shirts and the number of men's shirts that were sold on Thursday.

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The bookstore at suntan u had a sale on school tshirts. Thursday they sold 45 of the marked down shirts for a total of $406.50. If the women's shirts were on sale for $9.25 and the men's shirts were on sale for $8.50, how many of each was sold on Thursday?

  1. write a system of equations that represents this information
  2. solve the system to find the number women's shirts and the number of men's shirts that were sold on Thursday. 
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