SOLUTION: im a little stuck heres my question: during one calendar year a state trooper issued a total of 375 citations for warnings and speeding tickets. of these, there were 37 more war

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Question 331145: im a little stuck heres my question:
during one calendar year a state trooper issued a total of 375 citations for warnings and speeding tickets. of these, there were 37 more warnings than speeding tickets. how many warnings and how many speeding tickets were issued?

Answer by mananth(16946) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
speeding tickets be x
warning will be x+37
..
x+x+37 = 375
2x+37=375
add-37
2x+37-37=375-37
2x=338
x= 169 speeding tickets
warning= 169+37= 206