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There are 850 Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine trees in a section of forest bought by Karamazov Logging Co. The company paid an average of $300 for each Douglas fir and $225 for each Ponderosa pine. If the company paid $217,500 for the trees, how many of each kind did the company buy?

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User Donnie H
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use the equations 300x + 225y= 217500 and x + y= 850 to solve
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User Randy Eppinger
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