Marion bought 14 packages of plastic frog and lizard fishing lures. she bought frog lures in packages of 4 and lizard lures in packages of 6 for a total of 72 lures. how many of each lure did marion buy?

Marion bought 6  frog lures and 8 lizard fishing lures.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let represent frog lures and represent lizard lures.

The total packages Marion bought is

If she bought frog lures in packages of 4 and lizard lures in packages of 6 for a total of 72 lures, then

We make the subject in equation 1 and put it into equation 2 to get;

We put equation 3 into equation 2 to get;

We expand the bracket to get;

We put into equation 3 to get;

Therefore Marion bought 6  frog lures and 8 lizard fishing lures.

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