Abigail works as a salesperson at an electronics store and sells phones and phone accessories. Abigail earns a $14 commission for every phone she sells and a $3.50 commission for every accessory she sells. On a given day, Abigail made a total of $129.50 in commission and sold 7 more accessories than phones. Write a system of equations that could be used to determine the number of phones sold and the number of accessories sold. Define the variables that you use to write the system.

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Let number of accessories be a , and phone be p

a = p+7

3.5a + 14p = 129.50
3.5(p+7) + 14p = 129.5
3.5p + 24.50 + 14p = 129.5
17.5p = 105.0
p = 6
then a = 13
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specificity would help a lot
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