SOLUTION: How do you do elimination, substitution, and solving by graphing? I'm totally lost!!!!

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let the amount given be x


Ben had $143 and Michael had $19


Adding x dollars,they now have


Ben=(143+x)
Michael=(19+x)


but now ben has 5 times as much as michael


(143+x)=5(x+19)
143+x=5x+95
143-95=5x-x
48=4x
x=12

Thus they were each given 12 dollars.