SOLUTION: My homework isnt hard a lot of the time, but this problem is REALLY stumping me! Any help? Last month Cindy Lou ate an unknown number of cans of Who Hash. Her mother ate 7 few

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Question 387070: My homework isnt hard a lot of the time, but this problem is REALLY stumping me! Any help?
Last month Cindy Lou ate an unknown number of cans of Who Hash. Her mother ate 7 fewer than 4 times as many cans as Cindy Lou. Her father ate twice as many cans as her mother. Using “h” to represent the number of cans Cindy Lou ate, write an expression to show the total number of cans that Cindy Lou, her mother and father ate. Simplify the expression.
I wrote that
H= Cindy
M=Cindy's Mom
F=Cindy's Father
4h-7= M
2m=F
I understood that two M is F, and two M is Also equal to
8h-14=F
But Im having trouble figuring out how to solve for h in...
Please, help me!
Answer by josmiceli(19441) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can't solve for h because it's unknown, and the
information given does not make it possible to find.
All they want is basically what you already found
The number of cans of hash is
h+%2B+m+%2B+f
and this equals
h+%2B+4h+-+7+%2B+8h+-+14
This simplifies to
13h+-+21