SOLUTION: You and a classmate have a bug collection for science class. You find 5 out of every 9 bugs in the collection. You find 4 more bugs than your classmate. How many bugs are in the

Question 1065603: You and a classmate have a bug collection for science class. You find 5 out of every 9 bugs in the collection. You find 4 more bugs than your classmate. How many bugs are in the collection?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = total number of bugs in collection

There are 36 bugs in the collection
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check:

and

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OK
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