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A contractor needs to buy nails to build a house. The nails come in small boxes and large boxes. Each small box has 100 nails and each large box has 350 nails. The contractor bought a total of 9 boxes that have 2400 nails altogether. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of small boxes purchased and the number of large boxes purchased. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

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Answer:The system 150x+400y=1950 and x = y+2 could be used to determine the number of small boxes and large boxes ordered where x represents the number of small boxes and y represent the number of large boxes.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Let s = the number of small boxes purchased

Let l = the number of large boxes purchased

100s + 350l= 2400

s+l= 9

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