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A garden center has one type of rock that sells for $6.50 per cubic yard and another type of rock that sells for $12.80 per cubic yard. They want to make 25.2 cubic yards of a mixture of rock that sells for $12.40/cubic yard. How much of each rock will they need to obtain the desired mixture?
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