SOLUTION: heckle and jeckle shared the driving ona 500 mile trip. heckle drove 80 miles more than jeckle. how far did heckle drive?

Question 171080: heckle and jeckle shared the driving ona 500 mile trip. heckle drove 80 miles more than jeckle. how far did heckle drive?
Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
lets call the distance heckle drove 500-x and the amount jeckle drove x.
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so if you take the amount driven by heckle and subtract out jeckles miles it will equal 80 since he drove 80 more miles
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so (500-x)-x=80
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500-2x=80
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-2x=-420
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miles driven by Jeckle
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miles driven by Heckle
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