Thanh purchased crawfish and shrimp at a local seafood market to use at her restaurant. At the market, crawfish cost $3 per poun

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Thanh purchased crawfish and shrimp at a local seafood market to use at her restaurant. At the market, crawfish cost $3 per poun

d and shrimp cost $5 per pound. Thanh spent $200 total on 52 pounds of seafood. The system of linear equations shown can be used to represent this situation. In the system of linear equations, c represents the pounds of crawfish purchased and s represents the pounds of shrimp purchased.
{c+s=523c+5s=200

How many total pounds of shrimp did Thanh purchase?

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