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You are aiming to spend $100 or less on meat for a barbeque. Your options are chicken or steak. Chicken costs $1.29/lb and steak costs $3.49/lb. How much of each meat can be purchased?
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You are aiming to spend $100 or less on meat for a barbeque. Your options are chicken or steak. Chicken costs $1.29/lb and steak costs $3.49/lb. How much of each meat can be purchased?

User Radomeit
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If you are just buying chicken, you can buy 77 lbs and if you are just buying steak you can buy 28 lbs BUT if you wanted to buy both steak and chicken then you can buy 39 lbs of chicken and 14 lbs of steak.
User Seljuk Gulcan
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If you were looking for more steak than chicken you could do this
28 lbs steak
1 lb chicken
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