2003 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 2
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Problem
Members of the Rockham Soccer Leauge buy socks and T-shirts. Socks cost $4 per pair and each T-shirt costs $5 more than a pair of socks. Each member needs one pair of socks and a shirt for home games and another pair of socks and a shirt for away games. If the total cost is $2366, how many members are in the Leauge?
Solution
Since T-shirts cost dollars more than a pair of socks, T-shirts cost
dollars.
Since each member needs pairs of socks and
T-shirts, the total cost for
member is
dollars.
Since dollars was the cost for the club, and
was the cost per member, the number of members in the Leauge is
.