SOLUTION: In a math class of 26 students, each girl drew a triangle and each boy drew a rectangle.There were 92 sides in all. How many girls and how many boys were in the class?

Question 337911: In a math class of 26 students, each girl drew a triangle and each boy
drew a rectangle.There were 92 sides in all. How many girls and how
many boys were in the class?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let R be the number of rectangles, T triangles.
1.
2.
From eq. 1,

Substitute into eq. 2,

Then from eq. 1,

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