A pediatrician records the ages of the patients seen in one day: 1,2,5,7,9,17,13,16,18,12,3,5,1. Assuming that some of the patie
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Pediatrician forgot to write down the value of the numbers whether months or years, maybe even days
Set equations for both containers:
Condition one: $y=2x$
Condition two: $(y-3)=4.5(x-2)$
plug in $y$ from condition one into the second equation:
$2x-3=4.5x-9$
simplify gives: $2.5x=6$
$\boxed{x=2.4}$
$\boxed{y=4.8}$
