SOLUTION: please help me solve this problem. together ken and Amy have 36 coins. ken has 4 more coins than Amy. how many cons does Amy have? please and thank you.
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Question 904597: please help me solve this problem. together ken and Amy have 36 coins. ken has 4 more coins than Amy. how many cons does Amy have? please and thank you.
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let' the number of coins Ken has be and the number of coins Amy has be
Ken and Amy have coins:
....eq.1
Ken has more coins than Amy:
...eq.2
go to
....eq.1 and substitute from eq.2
...solve for
......the number of coins Amy has
now find
...eq.2
....the number of coins Ken has
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