Mary bought a pound of bacon, a dozen eggs, and a loaf of bread to make breakfast for his family. The total cost was $7.42. The bacon cost $0.03 more than twice the price of the bread and the eggs cost $0.03 less than half the price of the bread. Compute the cost of each item. -constuct an augmented matrix and use Gaussian elimination to solve it

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Mary bought a pound of bacon, a dozen eggs, and a loaf of bread to make breakfast for his family. The total cost was $7.42. The bacon cost $0.03 more than twice the price of the bread and the eggs cost $0.03 less than half the price of the bread. Compute the cost of each item.

-constuct an augmented matrix and use Gaussian elimination to solve it

 

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