Use the following information to answer questions 27-29.
Kojo has an Internet site where his classmates can sell items in online auctions. For each item, a student pays Kojo a listing fee, based on the item's starting price, and a selling fee calculated as a percent of the selling price, as shown in the tables below.
29. Erick sold 2 items on Kojo's site. The sum of the selling prices for the 2 items was $116.00. The sum of the selling fees for the 2 items was $4.34. The system of equations below can be used to obtain the selling price for each item. What was the total listing fee for the 2 items given that the starting price was equal to the selling price for each of the 2 items?
x + y = 116.00
0.03x + 0.05y = 4.34
Your Answer is
Correct Answer is D
Explanation
Calculate x=73, y=43 from the equations; x and y are the selling prices of two items, and the title assumes that their selling prices are the starting prices; when the starting price is 73, the corresponding list The fee is $2; when the starting price is 43, the corresponding list fee is $1; the sum of the two is $3