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5.3 Exercise 29

Avg difficulty 2.5

To get her daily intake of fruit for the day, Sasha eats a banana and 8 strawberries on Wednesday for a calorie count of 145. On the following Wednesday, she eats two bananas and 5 strawberries for a total of 235 calories for the fruit. How many calories are there in a banana? How many calories are in a strawberry?

OpenStax Elementary Algebra 2e, 5.3 Solve Systems of Equations by Elimination, exercise 29

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