Question

Parisian sewer #1 contains 9 fewer gigantic rats—rats as big as cats, some might say—than parisian sewer #2. parisian sewer #2 contains 5 fewer gigantic rats than parisian sewer #3. if there are 56 gigantic rats in all three sewers combined, how many rats are in sewer #1?

Answer 1

There are different kinds of math problem. There will be 11 rats in sewer #1.

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The term  word problems is known to be problems that are associated with a story, math, etc. They are known to often vary in terms of technicality.

Lets take

sewer #1 = a

sewer #2 = b

sewer #3 = c

Note that   A=B-9

So then you would have:

A=B-9

B=C- 5

A+B+C=56

Then you have to do a substitution so as to find C:

(B- 9) + (C-5) + C = 56

{ (C- 5)-9} + (C-5) + C = 56

3C - 19 = 56

3C = 75

B = C- 5

B = 25 - 5

Therefore, B = 20

A = B - 9

= 25 - 9

=11

Therefore, there are are 11 rats in sewer #1

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