How can I find the price of house and the garden?

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A house and a garden were bought for 1000$, the cost of the house was 5 times that of garden.Find the price given for each. (Actually I don't have any guidance book to solve this type of questions I have got a whole exercise of this type of questions without any example solution so please help me.)

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Try writing two equations in two variables, and then solving them together. Perhaps let $h$ stand for the cost of the house, and $g$ for the cost of the garden. Since they were bought together for \$1000, this gives us

$$g + h = 1000$$

Likewise, the second piece of information given is that the house costs $5$ times as much as the garden, so $h = 5g$.

Now what happens when you substitute the second equation into the first? Can you use that to find one of the variables, and then the second?