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You sell lemonade for $2 per cup and orange juice got $3 per cup. You sell a total of 100 cups for $240. How cups of lemonade and orange juice were sold?

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Answer:240Step-by-step explanation:lets seeif we sell 100 cups of lemonade that would make 200 dollars NOT ENOUGHif we sell 100 cups of orange juice that would make 300 TOO MUCHmeaning we have the find the right onelets say if we sell 80 lemonade cups we would make 160 then have 20 orange juice which would make 60 and 160+60= 220 so not enough eitherthis means we can't have as much lemonadelets try 75 cups of lemonadelets say if we sell 50 lemonade cups we would make 100 then have 50 orange juice which would make 150 and 150+100= 250 so too muchlets try 55 cups of lemonadelets say if we sell 55 lemonade cups we would make 110 then have 45 orange juice which would make 135 and 110+135= 145sooo closetry 6060*2-120 40*3-120120*120= 240