J'Barri and his sister are using short and tall landscaping timbers to enclose a garden. They bought 40 timbers. The total cost for the timbers was $288. The short timbers cost $6 each and the tall timbers are $9 each. Let x represent the short timbers and y represent the tall timbers.
Write an equation representing the total cost ($): (do not type in any dollar signs)
Write an equation that represents the number of timbers they purchased:
What is the solution to the system?
J'Barri and his sister bought
short timbers and
long timbers.