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misha and his sister are using 5 foot and 8 foot landscaping timbers to enclose a vegetable garden they bought 40 timbers the total cost for the timbers was $288 which pair of equations could be used to find the number of timbers of each size that they brought?

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Answer:

x+y=40 and 6x+9y=288

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