SOLUTION: a sugar dud has 30 less than twice as many calories as a krunchy krum. if 5 sugar duds have the same number of calories as 8 krunchy krums, how many calories are in each?

Question 355436: a sugar dud has 30 less than twice as many calories as a krunchy krum. if 5 sugar duds have the same number of calories as 8 krunchy krums, how many calories are in each?
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let s = # calories in a sugar dud
k = # calories in a krunchy krum. Then from the given,
. From the second sentence, we also know that .
Thus by direct substitution, .
,
,
, the number of calories in a krunchy krum. This makes calories for a sugar dud.
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