Amarket sells 6 cans of food for every 7 boxes of food. the market sold a total of 26 cans and boxes today. how many of each kind did the market sell? 6 cans and 20 boxes 12 cans and 14 boxes 14 cans and 12 boxes 20 cans and 6 boxes

 The market sells 12 cans and 14 boxes of food.

Step-by-step explanation:  Given that a market sells 6 cans of food for every 7 boxes of food and a total of 26 and boxes are sold today.

We are to find the number of cans and boxes that the market sells.

Let x and y represents the number of cans and boxes respectively sold by the market.

Then, according to the given information, we have

and

From equation (i), we get

Thus, the market sells 12 cans and 14 boxes of food.

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