SOLUTION: Ilida went to Minewaska Sate Park one day this summer. All of the people at the park were either hiking or bike riding. There were 178 more hikers than bike riders. If there were a

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Question 1010497: Ilida went to Minewaska Sate Park one day this summer. All of the people at the park were either hiking or bike riding. There were 178 more hikers than bike riders. If there were a total of 676 people at the park, how many were hiking and how many were riding their bikes?
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
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Call hikers and bikers, h and b. Then we have
h + b = 676 and
h = b + 178
Plugging this into the first equation gives us
b + 178 + b = 676
2b + 178 = 676
2b = 498
b = 249 bikers
h = 249 + 178 = 427 hikers