Question

Theo and Kade worked on a school project together. Theo worked on the project 3 fewer hours than Kade did. Altogether, they worked for a
total of 27 hours. How many hours did they each work on the school project?

Answer 1

Answer:

Kade: 15 hours

Theo: 12 hours

Step-by-step explanation:

Personally what I did was subtract (-) 3 from 27 and I got 24 (27-3=24). Then I divided 24 by 2 ( divide by 2 because of Kade and Theo) Then I end up with 12. So I end up with 12 and 12 (but I noticed that didn’t end up equaling 27. So to equal 27 in total I just added 3 to kade since he worked 3 hours more than Theo

Answer 2

Let the hours Kade worked = X

Theo would be X - 3 ( 3 less than Kade).

Now you have:

X  + X -3 = 27

Combine like terms:

2x - 3 = 27

Add 3 to each side:

2x = 30

Divide both sides by 2:

x = 15

Kade worked 15 hours.

Theo worked 12 hours.