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You spend $11 on school supplies. You purchase pencils for $0.25 each and pens for $2 each. You purchase a total of 30 pencils and pens. Create an equation for this word problem.

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Answer:

11 = .25x + 2y

30 = x + y

Let x be the number of pencils

Let y be the number of pens

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