Question

A DJ tracks the song requests she receives on a Friday night. She noted that the number of requests for country songs was 2 more than 4/3 times the number of requests for hip-hop songs. There were 18 requests for country. If x represents the number of requests for hip-hop songs, which equation represents this situation? How many requests for hip-hop songs did the DJ receive on Friday night?

Answer 1

No. of country songs=4/3x+2
No of hip-hop requests= (18-2)x 3/4=12