<em>Answer: There are 5 trumpet players and 15 saxophone player</em>
<em>Step-by-step explanation: Let a be the number of trumpet players
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<em>Let b be the number of saxophone players
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<em>(1) a = b-10
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<em>(2) b =3a
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<em>Substitute </em>
<em>(2) into (1)
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<em>(1) a =3a-10
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<em>(1) 2a =10 </em>
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<em> (1) a = 5and
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<em>(2) b = 3(5)(2) </em>
<em>b = 15
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<em>There are 5 trumpet players and 15 saxophone player</em>
12z+42=73
subtract 42 from both sides.
12z=31
divide 12 on both sides to get:
z=2.58
Answer:
There are 1240 students at Washington middle school.
Step-by-step explanation:
Percentages and Portions
We can find portions of a whole by correctly managing the percentages of each part. We know 25% of all students at Washington middle school were on the honor roll. From that portion, 60% of the students are seventh graders. That means 40% of the 25% are eight graders, i.e. 40*25%=10% were from eight grade.
We have 10% of all students are 124, thus the number of students are 124/10%=1240
There are 1240 students at Washington middle school.
Let's test the answer. 25% of 1240 students are on the honor roll, which is 310 students. 40% of 310 students are from 8th grade, 40%*310 = 124 as stated in the problem
Answer:
What Wally did wrong is that it is supposed to be (4a-5)(a-4)
In order to get -21 a. He was supposed to use negative 5 and 4 to get to negative 21
If he used (4a+5)(a+5)
The answer will be positive 21 and that's not what the problem is asking
Step-by-step explanation:
