A snail crawled of a centimeter in 2 minutes. At that rate, how far could the snail crawl in 1
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The reason that I put it equal to each other is because they are both the same distance from each other.
To solve these type of questions, you need to create 2 equations that represent the two statements given. So for "One number is 5 times more than the other." You'll make
And for "The sum of the numbers is 17" you would make:
What you would do after this is put the value of y, x + 5, into the second equation. This gets the x alone, allowing you to solve for x.
Then you plug back the value into one of the equations like this:
So your numbers would be 6 and 11.
And for "The sum of the numbers is 17" you would make:
What you would do after this is put the value of y, x + 5, into the second equation. This gets the x alone, allowing you to solve for x.
Then you plug back the value into one of the equations like this:
So your numbers would be 6 and 11.