SOLUTION: What would be the equation for this? Tien and Kenji collect stamps. Kenji collected 29 fewer than three times the number of Tien�s stamps. Altogether, they collected 675 stamps. Ho

Question 916643: What would be the equation for this? Tien and Kenji collect stamps. Kenji collected 29 fewer than three times the number of Tien�s stamps. Altogether, they collected 675 stamps. How many stamps did Tien and Kenji collect?
Found 2 solutions by josmiceli, Hawksfan:
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the number of stamps Tien collected
= the number that Kenji collected
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and

Tien collected 176 stamps
Kenji collected 499 stamps
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check:

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Answer by Hawksfan(61) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
K + T = 675
K = 3T-29
Substitute:
3T-29 + T = 675
4T -29 = 675
4T = 704
T = 176 stamps
K = 3 (176) -29 = 499 stamps

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