Let Ted be x.
Ed is 7 years older = x + 7
Ed = (3/4)Ted
(x + 7) = (3/4)x
x + 7 = 3x/4
x - 3x/4 = -7
x/4 = -7
x = -28, Ted = -28 years.
(x + 7) = -28 + 7 = -21, Ed = -21 years
Goodness. We had negative numbers for the ages, well does that make sense? No it doesn't.
Our answer is correct. But the sense in the question is lacking. The question has been wrongly set.
<span>We might assume negative ages to mean before they came into the world, before birth! </span>
<span>Amanda has 26 nickels and dimes.
We shall call nickels x and dimes y.
We can write the following equations:
x = 3y -2 or -x +3y = 2
x + y = 26
We can cancel out the x to give 4y = 28 or y = 7
If there are 26 coins in total and 7 of them are dimes then there must be 19 nickels.
The number of nickels (19) is two fewer than three times the number of dimes ( 3(7) - 2 = 19).</span>
Let x represent number of bracelets and y represent number of necklaces.
We have been given that a jeweler made 7 more necklaces than bracelets. This means that number of necklaces will be 
. We can represent this information in an equation as:
We have been given that the amount of gold in each bracelet is 6 grams, so amount used for x bracelets would be 
grams.
We are also told that the amount of gold in each necklace is 16 grams, so amount used for y necklaces would be 
grams.
Since the jeweler used 178 grams of gold, so we will equate the amount of gold used in x bracelets and y necklaces with 178 as:
Therefore, our required system of equations would be:
Answer:
Well, you gotta take the amount a person runs per day and multiply by seven to see how much they ran per week, i dont have a value so its not possible to answer the quistion.
