You are buying meat for a cookout. you need to buy 8 packages of meat. a package of hot dogs cost $1.60 and a package of hamburger costs $5. you spend a total of $23. find the number of packages of each type of meat bought, using systems of equation.

Let the number of packages of hot dogs be D, and the number of packages of hamburgers be H. We can set up the equations:
1.60D + 5H = 23
D + H = 8 ---> which we can subtract D on both sides and get: H = 8 - D
1.6D + 40 - 5D = 23, -3.4D = -17, D = 5. The number of packages of hot dogs we buy are 5.
Now, we plug that into D + H = 8, and get 5 + H = 8. Subtracting by 5 on both sides of the equation, we get H = 3. So the number of packages of hamburgers we buy are 3.
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