SOLUTION: Jack has 50 coins and Tracy has 20 coins. They each give James the same amount of coins. Jack’s new amount of coins is less than or equal to 4 times Tracey’s new amount of coin
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Question 1143985: Jack has 50 coins and Tracy has 20 coins. They each give James the same amount of coins. Jack’s new amount of coins is less than or equal to 4 times Tracey’s new amount of coins. Find the range of the amount of coins they each could have given James. (Hint: let x be the amount of coins they each give James)
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of coins they each give James
The range of coins is between 1 and 10 inclusive.
( can't be zero coins since they gave James some coins )
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