Question

Carrie and Kenny both play soccer. Kenny scores 3 times as many goals as Carrie. Together they scored 12 goals. Could Carrie have scored 2 goals? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Carrie has scored 3 goals.

Explanation:

Given:

Kenny scores 3 times more goal than Carrie.

So let the number of goal score by Carrie be
`x`

Therefore number of goals scored by Kenny =
`3x`

Now according to given data together they score 12 goal.

Total goal Scored = number of goals scored by Kenny + number of goal score by Carrie

`3x+x=12\\4x=12\\x=(12)/(4)=3`

Number of goals scored by kenny =
`3x = 3 * 3 = 9`

Hence number of goals scored by Carrie is 3 and number of goals scored by Kenny is 9