A craft store has 12 identical sacks of loose buttons. Each button is perfectly circular and is either solid black, b , or solid white, w . Each sack contains 9 more black buttons than white ones. The t otal number of buttons in all of the sacks is 372. The number of buttons of each color in 1 sack can be found by using the following system of equations: Which ordered pair, ( b , w ), is a reasonable solution for the number of buttons of each color in 1 sack

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