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PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION RIGHT The Jimenez family is bringing 12 packages of hamburger and hotdog buns to the neighborhood

picnic. The hamburger buns cost $2.00 per package. The hot-dog buns cost $1.50 per package. They
spent $20 for the buns. Create and solve a system of equations that can be used to find the number of
packages of each type of bun purchased.

PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION RIGHT The Jimenez family is bringing 12 packages of hamburger-example-1
User Muetzenflo
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The system of equations is:

2x+1.5y=20
x+y=12

When you solve it you get:
x=4 hamburger bun packages
y=8 hot dog bun packages
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