Answer:
Weight of dog: 34 pounds,
Weight of cat: 12 pounds.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let d represent weight of dog and c represent weight of cat.
We have been given that a dog weighs two pounds less than three times the weight of a cat.
3 times weight of cat: 
We can represent the given information in an equation as:

We are also told that the dog also weights twenty-two more pounds than the cat. We can represent the given information in an equation as:

Equate both equations:






Therefore, the weight of cat is 12 pounds.
Substitute
in equation (2)



Therefore, the weight of dog is 34 pounds.
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3x - 5 | x = 1.6 repeating
5y - 4 | y = 0.8 or 4/5
y + 12 | y = -12
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