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Brown rice costs $2 per pound and beans cost $1.60 per pound. Lin has $10 to spend on these items to make a large meal of beans and rice for a potluck dinner. Let b be the number of pounds of beans Lin buys and r be the number of pounds of rice she buys when she spends all her money on this meal.

Write an equation relating the two variables.

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Answer:

10=2r+1.60b

Explanation:

1.60 per pund of beans 2 per pound of rice.

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Answer:

2r+1.6b= 10

Explanation:

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