SOLUTION: a company uses 2 vans to transport workers from a free parking lot to the workplace between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m. one van has 14 more seats than the other. the smaller van makes two t
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Question 1111355: a company uses 2 vans to transport workers from a free parking lot to the workplace between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m. one van has 14 more seats than the other. the smaller van makes two trips every morning while the larger one makes only one trip. the two vans can transport 65 people, maximum.
Let x be the seats in the small van and y be the seats in the large van. How many seats does the larger van have?
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the seats in the small van
and y be the seats in the large van.
y-x=14
2x+y=65
subtract the two equations
-3x=-51
x=17
y=31
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