SOLUTION: Paul and Mary both work for a bakery that is making pumpkin and pecan pies in the month of november. Every day that Paul works, he makes 14 pumpkin pies and 12 pecan pies. Every da

Question 1149663: Paul and Mary both work for a bakery that is making pumpkin and pecan pies in the month of november. Every day that Paul works, he makes 14 pumpkin pies and 12 pecan pies. Every day that Mary works, she makes 20 pumpkin pies and 6 pecan pies. In total, syppose the two make 510 pumpkin pies and 288 pecan pies in the month of november. Write and solve a system of linear equations to determine how many days Paul works and how many days Mary works>
Answer by ikleyn(52832) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Paul and Mary both work for a bakery that is making pumpkin and pecan pies in the month of november.
Every day that Paul works, he makes 14 pumpkin pies and 12 pecan pies.
Every day that Mary works, she makes 20 pumpkin pies and 6 pecan pies.
In total, syppose the two make 510 pumpkin pies and 288 pecan pies in the month of november.
Write and solve a system of linear equations to determine how many days Paul works and how many days Mary works>
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With the given data, the solution/(the answer) is not in integer numbers,

so I think that the input data is wrong.

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