A contractor needs to buy nails to build a house. The nails come in small and large boxes. Each small box has 50 nails and each large box has 400 nails. The contractor bought 6 more small boxes than large boxes, which all together had 1200 nails. Create a system of equations to represent this situation. Use the system of equations to solve how many large and small boxes there were.

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Answer:

2 large boxes and 8 small boxes

Step-by-step explanation:

2x400=800

8x50=400

800+400=1200