SOLUTION: so, you and your friend go to eat at a mexican restaurant.You ordered 2 tacos and 5 burritos. Your friend ordered 2 tacos and 4 burritos. your bill was $29.00 and your friends bill

Question 924301: so, you and your friend go to eat at a mexican restaurant.You ordered 2 tacos and 5 burritos. Your friend ordered 2 tacos and 4 burritos. your bill was $29.00 and your friends bill was $22.00. how much was each taco and burrito?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, price for taco
y, price for burrito

YOU:

FRIEND:

Solve, suggestion as start with Elimination Method... ,
handled purely mentally, y=7.--------------------------------------Thinking very carefully about this result, something is wrong in the problem's description.

Think how the actual data compare. The only difference is 1 burrito and 7 dollars. This just cannot make any sense.
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