Braden and jason, who are florists, purchased flower bouquets and vases at the same store. braden bought 3 flower bouquets and 5 vases for a total of $25.75. jason bought 8 flower bouquets and 2 vases for a total of $29.00. what is the price of a flower bouquet?

Let flower bouquet be  and vase be 

Form two equations as follow

---> Equation 1
----> Equation 2

Using the elimination method:

Choose which variable, either  or  that we want to eliminate first. Say we choose 

The next step is we need to make the constants of  to be the same value. At the moment we have  and . Using the concept of common multiple, we will multiply  by  and the  by 5 to get both 's with a constant 10

The rule of the Algebraic equation is: if we multiply one term by , then we need to do the same with all the other terms in the equations. So now we have

()×2 ⇒
()×5⇒ 

Now we can eliminate  by subtracting Equation 1 from Equation 2 (it would also work the other way around)

Equation 2 - Equation 1




Now we've worked out the price of one flower bouquet, we can substitute back  into either equation 1 or equation 2 to work out the price of one vase






Hence, the price of one bouquet is $2.75 and one vase is $3.50