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A box company completed a study to determine the number of boxes an old machine would produce in an hour. They determined that the old machine produced 280 boxes in 4 hours.

During its first day of operation, a new machine, after running a full 8 hours, produced 56 more boxes than the old machine would have produced in that time.

Which of the following is true about the new machine?

1: The equation y = 84x represents the production rate of the new machine.

2: The equation y = 77x represents the production rate of the new machine.

3: The new machine can produce 14 boxes an hour.

4: The new machine can produce 7 more boxes an hour than the old machine.

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The equation y = 84x represents the production rate of the new machine as interpreted by given problem statement.

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