SOLUTION: An employment agency specializing in temporary construction helps pay heavy equipment operators $124 per day and general laborers $96 per day. If thirty-two people were hired and t

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Question 863879: An employment agency specializing in temporary construction helps pay heavy equipment operators $124 per day and general laborers $96 per day. If thirty-two people were hired and the payroll was $3912, how many heavy equipment operators were employed? How many laborers?
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Solve the 2X2 system for , the number of heavy equipment operators and , the number of general laborers.

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