Here is this week's extra credit:
Week 26 Extra Credit
Serena is trying to become more environmentally conscious by making her own cleaning products. She researches different cleaners and decides to make furniture polish using olive oil and lemon juice. She wants to make enough to fill two 24-ounce bottles.
Write an equation in standard form to represent the total amount of mixture Serena wants to make.
Use x to represent the amount of lemon juice and y to represent the amount of olive oil.
The recommendation for the mixture is that the amount of olive oil must be twice the amount of lemon juice. Write an equation in terms of x and y as defined above to represent this situation.
Use substitution to solve the system of equations. Be sure to check your answer.
Write your answer as an ordered pair (x, y)
What does the solution of the system represent in terms of the problem scenario?
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