SOLUTION: Roger bought some turkey and some roast beef for the soccer club picnic. He paid $150 for a total of 20 pounds of meat. The turkey cost $6 per pound, and the roast beef cost $5 p

Question 1147904: Roger bought some turkey and some roast beef for the soccer club picnic. He paid $150 for a total of 20 pounds of meat. The turkey cost $6 per pound, and the roast beef cost $5 per pound. Which system of equations could be used to correctly determine how many pounds of each type of meat Roger purchased?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
t turky
b beef

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Answer by ikleyn(52799) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Roger bought some turkey and some roast beef for the soccer club picnic. He paid $150 for a total of 20 pounds of meat.
The turkey cost $6 per pound, and the roast beef cost $5 per pound.
Which system of equations could be used to correctly determine how many pounds of each type of meat Roger purchased?
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Usually, and as a rule, writing such a system to such a problem is traditionally considered
as absolutely clear, trivial and self-evident action.

But in your problem input data make the solution IMPOSSIBLE in real positive numbers (!)

Notice that even 20 pound of turkey at $6 per pound cost only $120 dollars, which is LESS than $150.

Therefore, the solution does not exist in positive real numbers.

FAKE PROBLEM (!)

PENALTY to the author (!)

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