SOLUTION: At work one day, Erica Franz received 7 packages. Speedy delivery delivered twice as many as Ralph's Express, while Ralph's Express delivered one more package than SendQuick packa
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Question 179297: At work one day, Erica Franz received 7 packages. Speedy delivery delivered twice as many as Ralph's Express, while Ralph's Express delivered one more package than SendQuick package. How many packages did each service deliver to Erica.
Speedy Delivery
Ralph's Express
Send Quick
Found 2 solutions by stanbon, Mathtut:
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
At work one day, Erica Franz received 7 packages. Speedy delivery delivered twice as many as Ralph's Express, while Ralph's Express delivered one more package than SendQuick package. How many packages did each service deliver to Erica.
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Equations:
s + r + q = 7
s = 2r
r = q + 1
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Rearrange:
s + r + q = 7
s - 2r + 0 = 0
0 + r - q = 1
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Use any method you know to get:
s = 4
r = 2
q = 1
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Cheers,
Stan H.
Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let number of packages speedy,ralphs,and sendquik delivered be a,b,and c respectively
:
a=2b.......eq 1
b=c+1......eq 2
a+b+c=7....eq 3
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rewrite eq 2 to c=b-1 and take that value and the value of a in eq 1 and plug them into eq 3
:
(2b)+b+(b-1)=7
:
4b=8
:
packages delivered by ralphs
:
packages delivered by speedy
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package delivered by sendquick
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