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The Fabulous Fish Market orders tilapia, which costs $3 per pound, and salmon, which costs $5 per pound. The market budgets $210 to spend on this order each day.

Define variables and write an equation representing the relationship between the amount of each fish bought and how much the market spends.

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Answer:Your answer is...

Step-by-step explanation:3x+5y=210

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Answer:3x+5y=210

Explanation:

We dont know how much of each fish they bought so we would add an x and a y. A answer you can put are:

35 pounds of tilapia and 21 pounds of salmon.

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