SOLUTION: there are 24 more sophomores than juniors in a chemistry class.if there are 42 students in this class, find the number of sophomores and the number of juniors in the class.

Question 986855: there are 24 more sophomores than juniors in a chemistry class.if there are 42 students in this class, find the number of sophomores and the number of juniors in the class.
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

let sophomores be and juniors
if there are more sophomores than juniors in a chemistry class, then we have

if there are students in this class, then
.....substitute for

-the number of juniors
and
=>-the number of sophomores

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