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Jada flew home from vacation with a heavy bag. With the first airline she flew, jada had to pay $29 to check her bag, plus $4 for every pound that her bag was over the weight limit. The next flight was with another airline that had the same weight limit. Jada had to pay $11 per pound that her bag was over the weight limit, in addition to the checked bad fee of $15. By coincidence, the fees ended up being the same with both airlines. How far over weight limit was the bag? How large was each airlines fee?

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Please reply if you meant check bag fee instead of checked bad fee but if it’s checked bag fee then check what I am doing below
So if it is going to be two simultaneous equations
$29+4(x)=y
$15+11(x)=y

But I
Am getting a negative answer so you can tell the source of this question to reframe the question
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