Question

Reggie and Courtney are picking up trash along the highway. Together they have collected 15 bags of trash.Courtney has collected 3 more bags then Reggie. How many bags have they each collected?

Answer 1

Bags collected by reggie and Courtney are 6, 9 respectively.

SOLUTION:

Given, Reggie and Courtney are picking up trash along the highway.  

Together they have collected 15 bags of trash.

Courtney has collected 3 more bags then Reggie.  

We have to find how many bags have they each collected?

Let the number bags collected by reggie be n, then number of bags collected by Courtney will be 15 – n.

Now, according to the given information,

Number of bags with Courtney = 3 + number of bags with reggie

15 – n = 3 + n

n + n = 15 – 3

2n = 12

n = 6

so, reggie collected 6 bags, then, Courtney collected 15 – 6 = 9 bags.

Hence, bags collected by reggie and Courtney are 6, 9 respectively