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At a restaurant, you eat 2 taco salads and drink 2 glasses of ice tea. Your friend eats 1 taco salad and drinks 1 glass of ice tea. The restaurant charges you $11 and your friend $6.50. Can you determine the prices of taco salads and ice tea?

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No, because the information that you have given is contradicting itself:

[tex]2x+2y=11\\\frac{2x}{2}+\frac{2y}{2}=\frac{11}{2}\\x+y=5.50\\x+y=6.50\\5.50 \neq 6.50[/tex]