SOLUTION: Tori Chang has three chores to finish over the coming weekend: planting flowers, cleaning the house, and babysitting her neighbor�s toddler. She has 20 hours to allow for these ac

Question 1114870: Tori Chang has three chores to finish over the coming weekend: planting flowers, cleaning the house, and babysitting her neighbor�s toddler. She has 20 hours to allow for these activities. She decides to spend three times as much time babysitting as cleaning and 1 hour less planting flowers as babysitting. Find how much time can be spent doing each activity.
a) babysitting
b) cleaning
c) planting flowers
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
p, plant flowers
b, baby sit
c, clean house

Rewrite the first equation all in terms of b.

------hours baby sitting

------plant flowers

------cleaning house
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