Equilateral triangle means each angle equals 60 degrees.
60 = 7x - 3
63 = 7x
x = 9
First, you know that Jackson (let call her J) scored 41 more points than L (Leslie). What we don't know is how many points L scored so we can use a variable that will be 'x'.
So the equation will be
J=41+x.
We also know that the total points is 1,189.
To find out what x is we first subtract
1,189-41. We then get 1,148.
We are now left with 2x and 1,148 so we divide
1,148 by 2 and get 574.
574=x so now we can plug that in.
J= 574+41
Jackson scored 615 points and
Leslie scored 574 points
(You can use bar modeling to do solve this problem. An example of bar modeling is shown below.
Answer & Step-by-step explanation:
2a - b : 2a + b = 1 : 2
2a - b = 1
- Elimination
2a + b = 2
-b - (b) = -1
-2b = -1
b = 0.5
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2a + b = 2 Substitution
2a + 0.5 = 2
2a = 1.5
a = 0.75
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a:b
0.75 : 0.5
or
3/4 : 1/2
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