Problem:
Al gets the disease algebritis and must take one green pill and one pink pill each day for two weeks. A green pill costs more than a pink pill, and Al's pills cost a total of for the two weeks. How much does one green pill cost?
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Solution:
The cost of each day's pills is dollars. If denotes the cost of one green pill, then , so .
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