SOLUTION: Jenny buys two apples and six lemons for $7.02, while a second shopper buys five apples and three lemons for $2.76. What is the price of each fruit?

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Question 726678: Jenny buys two apples and six lemons for $7.02, while a second shopper buys five apples and three lemons for $2.76. What is the price of each fruit?
Answer by tanjo3(60)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the price for an apple and y be the price for a lemon.
Solved by pluggable solver: Linear System solver (using determinant)
Solve:


Any system of equations:


has solution

or



(x=-0.1875, y=1.2325}


The question has no reasonable answer as x is negative.
NOTE: Alternatively, multiply equation (2) by 2 and subtract (2) from (1) and notice that x is negative.
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