SOLUTION: Help ,please! I have a whole sheet of problems like this and it's driving me crazy,can't figure any of them out! Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles and 5 times a

Question 534864: Help ,please! I have a whole sheet of problems like this and it's driving me crazy,can't figure any of them out!
Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bicycles than tricycles, how many unicycles did they make?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bicycles than tricycles, how many unicycles did they make?
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Pick out what's given, write it down:
Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles
b = u + 88
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and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles
t = 5u
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If they made 40 more bicycles than tricycles
b = t + 40
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b = t + 40, t = 5u
--> b = 5u + 40
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b = u + 88 = 5u + 40
u + 88 = 5u + 40
48 = 4u
u = 12
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t = 5u = 60
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b = t + 40 = 100

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