Question
In a stall, 70% of the number of vegetables sold were sweet potatoes and the rest were yams. Each sweet potato cost 50¢ and each yam cost 10¢ less than the cost of each sweet potato. Given that $277.30 was collected from the sale of the vegetables,
  1. How many sweet potatoes were sold?
  2. How much was collected from the sale of the yams only?
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In a stall, 70% of the number of vegetables sold were sweet potatoes and the rest were yams. Each sweet potato cost 50¢ and each yam cost 10¢ less than the cost of each sweet potato. Given that $277.30 was collected from the sale of the vegetables,
  1. How many sweet potatoes were sold?
  2. How much was collected from the sale of the yams only?