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Martha bought new fish for her home aquarium. She Bought 3 guppies and 2 platies for a total of 13.95.Find the price of a guppy and price of a platy

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bought the same number of Guppies and only Hank bought 2 additional Platies. Thus, let’s subtract the total of Hank and Martha
=> 18.33 – 13. 95 = 4.38
Thus, Hank paid an additional of 4.34 for 2 platies. Let’s divide to get the price of platies
=> 4.34 / 2 = = 2.19 (price of platies each.)
Let’s solve for price of guppies
=> 13.95 – 4.34 = 9.61
=> 9.61 / 3 = 3.20 (Price of guppies each.)
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