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A local boys club sold 176 bags of mulch and made a total of $520. It sold two types of mulch: hardwood for $3.50 a bag and pine bark for $2.75 a bag. How many bags of each kind of mulch did it sell?
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A local boys club sold 176 bags of mulch and made a total of $520. It sold two types of mulch: hardwood for $3.50 a bag and pine bark for $2.75 a bag. How many bags of each kind of mulch did it sell?

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For the answer to the question above asking how many bags of each kind of much did it sell?

It's a system of equations.
x+y=176
3.50x+2.75y=520

then solve

x is hardwood bags sold and y is pine bark bags sold
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