Systems of Equations Word Problems
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In a family there are two cars. In a given week, the first car gets an average of 40 miles per gallon, and the second car gets 25 miles per gallon. The two cars combined drive a total of 1775 miles in that week, for a total gas consumption of 50 gallons. How many gallons were consumed by each of the two cars that week?
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First car consumes x gallon, second car consumes y gallon.
then first car drives 40x ...
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