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Jill bought oranges and bananas. she bought 12 pieces of fruit and spent $5. Oranges cost $0.50 each and bananas cost $0.25 each. write a system of equations to model the problem. Then solve the system algebraically. How many oranges and how many bananas did Jill but?

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the first part is 0.5x+0.25y= $12.00
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