document.write( "Question 163685: Bill and hiw wife, christine, and their son max, workied at a beverage stand at a three day bluegrass festival. Tegether the three of them worked a total of 62 hours. Christine worked 5 hours more than max and bill worked 3 hours more than twic as many hours as christine. How many hours did max work? \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #390464 by anyonegotadollar(1) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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The other answer to this is absolutely correct, it's just that I had to respond because the person who answered it somehow managed to not understand English sentence structure and assumed \"his wife, Christine\" implied 2 people, when it in fact gives his wife the name Christine. But I'll put the process of solving here anyway.\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "If Max's hours worked = n, then
\n" ); document.write( "Christine's hours worked = n+5 and Bill's hours worked = 3+2(n+5)
\n" ); document.write( "so
\n" ); document.write( " $\"%282%28n%2B5%29%2B3%29%2B%28n%2B5%29%2Bn=62\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"%282n%2B10%2B3%29%2B2n%2B5=62\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"4n%2B18=62\"$ so $\"4n=62-18\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"4n=44\"$ so $\"n=44%2F4\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"n=11\"$ \n" ); document.write( "

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