document.write( "Question 180041: I know the answer to my question, because I kept multiplying, but I don't know howto show my work as a stratey. The question is. In a math class of 26 students, each girl drew a triangle and each boy drew a rectangle. There were 92 slides in all. How may girls and how many boys were in the class. The answer I came up with was 16 girls and 11 boys. \n" ); document.write( "
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There are 3 sides to a triangle and 4 sides to a rectangle.
\n" ); document.write( "Let g = number of girls
\n" ); document.write( "and b = number of boys
\n" ); document.write( "then since we have two variables, we'll need two equations.
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\n" ); document.write( "g + b = 26 (equation 1)
\n" ); document.write( "3g + 4b = 92 (equation 2)
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\n" ); document.write( "solving equation 1 for g, we get:
\n" ); document.write( "g = 26-b
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\n" ); document.write( "Substituting the above into equation 2 we can then solve for b:
\n" ); document.write( "3g + 4b = 92
\n" ); document.write( "3(26-b) + 4b = 92
\n" ); document.write( "78 - 3b + 4b = 92
\n" ); document.write( "78 + b = 92
\n" ); document.write( "b = 14 (number of boys)
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\n" ); document.write( "Substitute the above into equation 1 and solve for g:
\n" ); document.write( "g + b = 26
\n" ); document.write( "g + 14 = 26
\n" ); document.write( "g = 12 (number of girls) \n" ); document.write( "
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