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Marco and Jazmin each bought trees to plant from Lowe’s. Marco spent $188 on 7 lemon trees and 9 orange trees. Jazmin spent $236 on 13 lemon trees and 9 orange trees. How much did lemon trees cost? How much did orange trees cost?

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Let x be the cost of each Lemon tree and y the cost of eache orange tree. So we get that

[tex]\begin{cases}7x+9y=188 \\ 13x+9y=236\end{cases}\rightarrow6x=48\rightarrow x=\frac{48}{6}=8[/tex]

having that the lemon tree cost $8 we get that

[tex]56+9y=188\rightarrow9y=188-56=132\rightarrow y=\frac{132}{9}=\frac{44}{3}[/tex]

so each orange tree cost $44/3

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