SOLUTION: A new cruise ship line has just launched 3 new ships: the pacific paradise, The Caribbean paradise and the Mediterranean paradise. The Caribbean paradise has 12 more deluxe statero

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Question 1069676: A new cruise ship line has just launched 3 new ships: the pacific paradise, The Caribbean paradise and the Mediterranean paradise. The Caribbean paradise has 12 more deluxe staterooms that the pacific paradise. The Mediterranean paradise has 14 fewer deluxe staterooms than three times the number of deluxe staterooms on the pacific paradise. Find the number of deluxe staterooms for each of the ships if the total number of deluxe staterooms for the three ships is 848.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
NEW SHIP                    HOW MANY STATE ROOMS
Pacific Paradise                  p
Caribbean Paradise                p+12
Mediterranean Paradise           3p-14
TOTAL --------------------------848

The sum of the number of deluxe staterooms is all in one single variable, p, for the number of rooms on the Pacific Paradise.

Solve the equation for p.
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