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The Soccer Boosters club sells hotdogs and hamburgers at the games to raise funds for the soccer team. Chili Cheese Hotdogs sell for $3.00 and hamburgers sell for $2.50. At the game last week 175 people purchased a chili cheese hotdog or hamburger and exactly $480 was collected. How many of each was sold?

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Let x be the number of hotdogs sold and y be the number of hamburgers sold.

System of equation will be

x + y ...

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