Question 145327
Charlie and Doggie are squirrels that live in the trees in my mother's yard. Before snow covered the fall crop of acorns,
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Write an equation for the statements:
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" Doogie gathered ten pounds more than two-thirds as many acorns as Charlie."
D = {{{2/3}}}C + 10
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" Charlie has all thirty-five pounds of acorns they gathered to himself."
C + D = 35
D = (35-C)
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 How may pounds did each of them gather?

Substitute (35-C) for D in the 1st equation, find C
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