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A paper company needs to ship paper to a large printing business. The paper will be shipped in small boxes and large boxes. Each small box box of paper weighs 25 pounds and each large box of paper weighs 70 pounds. A total of 21 boxes of paper were shipped weighing 1110 pounds altogether. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of small boxes shipped and the number of large boxes shipped. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

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Answer:

25s+70l=1110

s+l=21

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