SOLUTION: Last season, Jake and Jerome scored a total of 16 touchdowns. Jerome scored one more tha twice the number of Jake's touchdowns. How many did each score?

Question 163335: Last season, Jake and Jerome scored a total of 16 touchdowns. Jerome scored one more tha twice the number of Jake's touchdowns. How many did each score?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let X be the number of touchdowns that Jake scored.
Let Y be the number of touchdowns that Jerome scored.
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There is a relationship between Jake and Jerome's touchdowns.
1.
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Together they scored,
2.
Substitute eq. 1 into eq. 2 and solve for X.
2.

Then from eq. 1,

Jake scored 5, Jerome scored 11.
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