A certain vendor at a farmers’ market sells apples and pears. The prices of these fruit can be found with these equations, where a represents the price per bag of apples and p represents the price per bag of pears, in dollars: What is the price of a bag of apples, in dollars, if the prices per bag of both fruit are the same?

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A certain vendor at a farmers’ market sells apples and pears. The prices of these fruit can be found with these equations, where a represents the price per bag of apples and p represents the price per bag of pears, in dollars: <img alt='images' src='https://www.fatskills.com/images2/SAT/eq03199.png'/><!--<m:math display='block' overflow='scroll' xmlns:m='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><m:mtable columnalign='left'><m:mtr><m:mtd><m:mi>a</m:mi><m:mo>=</m:mo><m:mn>2.5</m:mn><m:mo>+</m:mo><m:mn>1.5</m:mn><m:mi>x</m:mi></m:mtd></m:mtr><m:mtr><m:mtd><m:mi>p</m:mi><m:mo>=</m:mo><m:mn>1.5</m:mn><m:mo>+</m:mo><m:mn>1.75</m:mn><m:mi>x</m:mi></m:mtd></m:mtr></m:mtable></m:math>--> What is the price of a bag of apples, in dollars, if the prices per bag of both fruit are the same?