You can spend at most $60 on beads. a bag containing red beads costs $2 per bag. a bag containing blue beads costs $3 per bag. you need more bags of blue beads than bags of red beads. write a system of linear equations that represents the situation.

Every weekday, mr. jones bikes from his home to his job. sometimes he rides along two roads, the long route that is shown by the solid lines. other times, he takes the shortcut shown by the dashed line. how many fewer kilometers does mr. jones bike when he takes the shortcut instead of the long route?