\begin{tabular}{l} Savings Application \\ \( \begin{array}{l}\text { Trevante and Ciara went shopping for baseball cards on EBay. Trevante purchased } 6 \text { blue } \\ \text { crates full of baseball cards while Ciara purchased } 2 \text { red crates full of baseball cards. } \\ \text { They were told by the seller that they would each receive the same number of baseball } \\ \text { cards. However, when the crates arrived, Trevante's blue crates each contained } 7 \text { original } \\ \text { shrink wrapped boxes plus } 10 \text { single baseball cards. Ciara's red crates each contained } 20 \\ \text { original shrink wrapped boxes plus } 42 \text { single cards. } \\ \text { Trevante and Ciara needed to figure out how many cards where in the shrink wrapped } \\ \text { boxes, but they didn't want to open them, because that would drastically reduce their } \\ \text { value. Instead, they used the fact that they both were sold the same number of cards to } \\ \text { set up the equation } 6(7 b+10)=2(20 b+42) \text { where } b \text { represents the unknown } \\ \text { quantity of cards in each box. }\end{array} \) \\ \( \begin{array}{l}\text { Help Trevante and Ciara determine how many cards are in each box by solving the } \\ \text { equation for } b \text {. Then give your answer by completing the sentence below. } \\ \text { Each original shrink wrapped box contains }\end{array} \) \\ \hline\end{tabular}
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