There are twice as many girls as boys in the school chorus. There are eight fewer boys than girls in the chorus. How do you write a system of equations to represent this situation and solve?
1 Answer
May 25, 2015
Choose symbols to stand for the various quantities described in the problem and express the described relations between those numbers in terms of the symbols you have chosen.
Let
Let
There are twice as many girls as boys in the school chorus:
There are eight fewer boys than girls in the chorus:
To solve, substitute for
Add
Subtract
Then substitute this value into the first equation: