Answer:
Cards with Mark = 30
Cards with Drew = 120
Cards with Katie = 12
Step-by-step explanation:
The complete question is
Drew has 4 times as many baseball cards as Mark. Katie has 3 fewer than than half as many cards as Mark. In all they have 162 baseball cards. How many does each have?
Solution -
Let the number of cards with Mark be "X"
Number of cards with Drew = 4 *X = 4X
Number of Cards with Katies = 0.5 X -3
Sum of all the cards is equal to 162
X+4X + 0.5 X -3 = 162
5.5 X = 165
X = 30
Cards with Mark = 30
Cards with Drew = 4 * 30 = 120
Cards with Katei = 15-3 = 12
Take an example: The salary per hour:
Assume x (variable) is the number of hours worked and assume THAT THE RATE PER HOUR IS $10, then:
If you work x hours at the hourly rate of$10, you will generate an income,
say, y that is equal the number of hours worked by the rate per hour, that is:
y = 10.x. The more hour(x) you work, the more income(y) you get.
Hence we created a relationship between y and x , or in English, between the earning and the number of hours worked.
Moreover y depends on x, if there is no x, there is no y and if x increases, y increases. However x is an INDEPENDENT variable because you can
give to x any number & y will follow
