SOLUTION: If jay and isabella have 59 movies together and jay has 13 more than isabella how many movies do each of them have

Question 222515: If jay and isabella have 59 movies together and jay has 13 more than isabella how many movies do each of them have
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If Jay and Isabella have 59 movies together and jay has 13 more than Isabella how many movies do each of them have

Step 1. Let x be the number of movies Isabella has.

Step 2. Let x+13 be the number of movies Jay has.

Step 3. Then, x+x+13=59 since they both have 59 movies.

Step 4. Solving yields the following steps

Subtract 13 from both sides of the equation

Divide 2 to both sides of the equation

and and note total is .

Step 5. ANSWER: Jay has 36 movies and Isabella has 23 movies.

I hope the above steps were helpful.

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