A pound of apples and a pound of bananas cost $3.65, a pound of bananas and a pound of cherries cost $4.95, and a pound of apples and a pound of cherries cost $6.10. What is the price per pound of each fruit?
Apples----$2.40 per pound
Bananas---$1.25 per pound
Cherries---$3.70 per pound
(And some folks think that algebra is useless...

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