standard_description: Use matrices to represent and manipulate data, e.g., to represent payoffs or incidence relationships in a network.
problem_activity: Task
A town's total allocation for firefighter's wages and beneﬁts in a new budget is \$600,000. If wages are calculated at \$40,000 per firefighter and beneﬁts at \$20,000 per firefighter, write an equation whose solution is the number of firefighters the town can employ if they spend their whole budget. Solve the equation.


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