Nuts.com sells raw almonds for $10 per pound and roasted pistachios for $12 per pound. Christopher spends $70, before taxes and shipping, to purchase 6.3 total pounds of nuts. Let a represent the number of pounds of almonds and let p represent the number of pounds of pistachios. Which system of equations represents the situation?
Question 1 options:


{10a+p=70
a+70p=6.3



{10a+12p=70
a+p=6.3



{10a+12p=6.3
a+p=70



{10a+12p=70
10a+12p=6.3

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