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haggle is making fruit basket which include apples and bananas to send to some of her estate clients she wants each basket to have at least 12 pieces of fruit, but the fruit should weigh no more than 80 ounces total. on average each apple weighs 5 ounces and each banana weighs 7 ounces. which system of inequalities can be used to determine the number of apples, x, and banana, y, that battle should include in each basket?

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The requirement is fulfilled when 10 bananas and 2 apples are kept in the basket.

The equation can be given as

10y + 2x = 80

Here,

y means 7 ounces (weight of banasas)

x means 5 ounces (weight of apples)

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