SOLUTION: Please help me solve this one: I bought coloring books. The big coloring books have 100 pages for $8 while the small coloring books have 25 pages for $2. I paid $28 and got a total

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Question 378707: Please help me solve this one: I bought coloring books. The big coloring books have 100 pages for $8 while the small coloring books have 25 pages for $2. I paid $28 and got a total of 650 pages. How many of each did I buy?
Answer by scott8148(6628) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the price per page is the same for both sizes, so there is not enough information to determine the number of each

also , given the price per page , the total cost and total pages do not concur (shoplifting?)