On recent trip to the convenience store, you picked up 4 gallons of milk, 6 bottles of water and 5 snack size bags of chips. You total bill before tax was $28.45. If the bottle of water costs twice as much as a bag of chips, and a gallon of milk costs $1.80 more than a bottle of water, how much does each item cost.

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On recent trip to the convenience store, you picked up 4 gallons of milk, 6 bottles of water and 5 snack size bags of chips. You total bill before tax was $28.45. If the bottle of water costs twice as much as a bag of chips, and a gallon of milk costs $1.80 more than a bottle of water, how much does each item cost.

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