SOLUTION: tom caught five more fish than pete and henry caught three times as many fish as tom together they caught 50 fish how many did tom catch

Question 166977: tom caught five more fish than pete and henry caught three times as many fish as tom together they caught 50 fish how many did tom catch
Answer by piglet162431(90) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
OK, let's start by setting x be the number of fish Pete caught
to express the number Tom caught, we use the expression x + 5
And for Henry, 3(x+5) because he caught 3 times as many fish as tom
all these fish add to be 50
so x + x+5 + 3(x+5) = 50
5x=30
x=6
So Tom is x +5, substitute in 6 + 5 = 11
Tom caught 11 fish.
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