SOLUTION: the us senete has 100 members all democrats or republicans. recently there were 12 more democrats then republicans. how many senators from each political party were there at that t

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Found 2 solutions by checkley71, stanbon:
Answer by checkley71(8403) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
X+X+12=100
2X=100-12
2X=88
X=88/2
X=44 REPUBLICIANS
100-44=56 DEMOCRATES.
PROOF
44+56=100
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the us senete has 100 members all democrats or republicans. recently there were 12 more democrats then republicans. how many senators from each political party were there at that time.
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Let # of democrats be "x"
# of republicans is "x+12"
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EQUATION:
x + x+12 = 100
2x = 88
x = 44 (# of democrats)
x+12 = 56 (# of republicans)
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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