If melissa placed an order for garden gloves ($2.99 each), and rakes (for $16.99 each), and she modified the order so that she had 25 items total, for a total of $144. how many of each did she buy?

none of the above.

for one of the equations to be used in the process, there has to be a term in the equation since squared is .

since there is only a term in the first equation, we cannot derive a from completing the square.

solving with completing the square

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