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Tasty Word Problem

A curious reader asked:

Pizza Plus sold a total of 580 pizzas ($6 each) and calzones ($8 each) during Sunday’s football game. How many of each item did Pizza Plus sell if the total sales were $3,734?

I’ve never been good at these things. Please help me to understand this. Thanks!!

(Not Just) A Geometry Word Problem

A reader recently sent in this problem:

Help, how do you solve this???

The area of a rectangle is 624cm2. The base is 8 less than 5 times the height. What is the perimeter?

I can not find out how to do it on line. I have a number of similar [...]