Question

Charity and timothy collect stamps. Timothy collected 17 fewer than three times the number of charitys stamps. Altogether, they collected 527 stamps. How many stamps did charity and timothy collect?
Charity collected _____
timothy collected____

Answer 1

Let

• charity collected=x
• Timothy collected=3x-17

ATQ

$\\ \tt\hookrightarrow x+3x-17=527$

$\\ \tt\hookrightarrow 4x-17=527$

$\\ \tt\hookrightarrow 4x=544$

$\\ \tt\hookrightarrow x=136$

• Charity=136
• Timothy=527-136=391[/tex]