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Lance lived in Portugal and Brazil for a total of 25 months to learn Portuguese. He learned an average of 130 new words per month in Portugal, and an average of 150 new words per month in Brazil. In total he learned 1920 new words.

Write a system of equations to represent this situation. Let x represent Portugal and let y represent Brazil.

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x+y=25
130x+150y=1920
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