Andy buys x cakes. betty buys 4 times as many cakes as andy. colin buys 3 more cakes than andy. each cake costs 65p. the total cost of the cakes is £52.65. how many cakes did each person buy?

Each cake cost £ 13.00

Step-by-step explanation:

We were given that, each cake costs or £

Andy buys cakes.

Andy's cost is

£

Betty buys 4 times as many cakes as  Andy.

Betty's cost is

£

£

Colin buys 3 more cakes than Andy

Colin's cost is

£

The total cost of the cakes is £ .

This implies that,

We expand to get,

We group like terms to get,

This gives us,

This implies that,

Therefore each cake cost £ 13.00

b

step-by-step explanation:

answer: 42

use a calculator to find that 845/73 = 11.575

the whole part of the answer is 11. multiply this by 73 to get 11*73 = 803.

subtract that result from 845 to get 845 - 803 = 42