SOLUTION: A vendor sells hot dogs and bags of potato chips. A customer buys 5 hot dogs and 3 bags of potato chips for $17.00. Another customer buys 3 hot dogs and 3 bags of potato chips for

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Question 1166553: A vendor sells hot dogs and bags of potato chips. A customer buys 5 hot dogs and 3 bags of potato chips for $17.00. Another customer buys 3 hot dogs and 3 bags of potato chips for $12.00. Find the cost of each item.
cost of hot dogs: $
cost of potato chips: $
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) About Me  (Show Source):
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Two separate equations of the form Ax+By=C, for the prices, x and y