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Alex is going to purchase tomatoes and black beans for a new black bean soup recipe. The recipe calls for 4 times as many pounds of black beans as tomatoes. If he has $32.40, what is the most pounds of tomatoes he can buy if tomatoes cost $1.70 per pound and black beans cost $1.60 per pound?

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Let

x = pounds of tomatoes

4x = pounds of black beans

1.70x + 1.60*4x = 32.40

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x = 4 lbs

He can buy 4 pounds of tomatoes at most.