Question

ian picked 5 times as many beries as michelle joe picked 7 times as many berries as michelle together they picked 208 berries how many berries did joe pick

Answer 1

Let x represent the amount michelle has.
The equation would be: 5x+7x+x=208
And to solve it you need to combine like terms: 5x+7x+x=13x
13x=208 divide both sides by 13 and you get that x equals to 16.
And this is how much each person got:
Michelle-16
Ian-80
Joe-112.
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