SOLUTION: If a chain link cost $2 per foot, and the rope cost $1.50 per foot, and a total of $135 was spent: How much of each did he buy? So, my question here is how do I start the problem a

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Question 1043195: If a chain link cost $2 per foot, and the rope cost $1.50 per foot, and a total of $135 was spent: How much of each did he buy? So, my question here is how do I start the problem and set up an equation to solve it? What's the algebraic analysis and solution? I need your help, please.
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If a chain link cost $2 per foot, and the rope cost $1.50 per foot, and a total of $135 was spent: How much of each did he buy?
So, my question here is how do I start the problem and set up an equation to solve it? What's the algebraic analysis
and solution? I need your help, please.
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At a given condition, there are many solutions, and you can not select a unique solution.

The equation for this situation is

2c + 1.5r = 135. (c is the length of chains in feet, r is the leng of ropes).

You have one equation for 2 unknowns.

In order for to have the unique solution, you need one more equation.
It means that the condition should include one more restriction.