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Kelly needs to order lunch for the 6 people at a business meeting. Her menu choices are chicken salad for a cost of $5 per person and egg salad for a cost of $4 per person. She only has $28 to spend. More people want chicken salad. How many of each lunch can she order?

1. Write one equation in a system for this situation
2. Write a second equation in the system.
3. What do x ad y represent?
4. How many of each type of lunch can she order?

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5*X+4*Y=28

number of people getting each meal
4 chicken salad and 2 egg salad
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