How many light bulbs and switch plates were sold?
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Light Bright Warehouse sells boxes of high efficiency light bulbs ($5 box) and switch plates ($10 each). In May, total sales were $42000. Customers bought 5 times as many boxes of light bulbs as switch plates. How many of each did Light Bright Warehouse sell?
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The Solution provides the number of light bulbs and switch plates sold.
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Let the number of light bulbs sold be x and switch plates sold be y. Then we can form two equations as follows:
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