For a party, you are cooking a large amount of stew that has meat, potatoes, and carrots. The meat costs $6 per pound, the potatoes cost $3 per pound, ana
the carrots cost $1 per pound. You spend $48.50 on 13.5 pounds of food. You
buy twice as many carrots as potatoes.
a. Write a system of three equations that represent how much
food you bought.
b. How much of each ingredient did you buy?