SOLUTION: When the football game started, there were twice as many Philly students as Comstock students. Five minutes into the game, busses arrived, bringing an additional 600 Philly student

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Question 1168398: When the football game started, there were twice as many Philly students as Comstock students. Five minutes into the game, busses arrived, bringing an additional 600 Philly students to the game. Total attendance for the game was 3552 students. How many students attended from each school?

Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, Boreal:
Answer by ikleyn(52814)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let C be the number of Comstock students.


Then the number of Philly students became  2C + 600  after the buses arrived.


You have this equation for total attendance


    c + 2C + 600 = 3552.


From this point, complete the solution on your own.

You are instructed and directed.



Answer by Boreal(15235)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
C=x
P=2x
later total P was 2x+600
x+2x+600=3552
3x=2952
x=984 Comstock
P=1968 at the beginning and 2568 at the end
(984 for C, 2568 for P)

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