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A paper company needs to ship paper to a large printing business. The paper will be

shipped in small boxes and large boxes. Each small box of paper weighs 40 pounds
and each large box of paper weighs 70 pounds. A total of 20 boxes of paper were
shipped weighing 1220 pounds altogether. Write a system of equations that could be
used to determine the number of small boxes shipped and the number of large boxes
shipped. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

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A paper company needs to ship paper to a large printing business. The paper will be-example-1
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40X+ 70X =1220 is the equation trying to find X on both sides
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