SOLUTION: If you buy 7 hamburgers and 3 sodas at a restaurant, you receive $1 change from a $20 bill. If you buy 8 hamburgers and 2 sodas you receive $0.50 in change from a $20 bill. How m
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Question 388053: If you buy 7 hamburgers and 3 sodas at a restaurant, you receive $1 change from a $20 bill. If you buy 8 hamburgers and 2 sodas you receive $0.50 in change from a $20 bill. How much change will you receive from a $5 bill if you buy 1 hamburger and 1 soda?
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Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the price of one hamburger. Let 
represent the price of one soda.
Then from the information given we can write:
and
Solve the system for and , then compute )
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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