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You are on a treasure-diving ship that is hunting for gold and silver coins. You reel in a wire basket that contains gold and silver coins, among other things. The basket holds no more than 50 pounds of material. Each gold coin weighs about 0.5 ounce, and each silver coin weighs about 0.25 ounce. You want to know the different numbers of each type of coin that could be in the basket. Explain why there cannot be 400 gold coins and 2800 silver coins in the basket.