Question

The area of a certain desert desert one is five times the area of another desert desert 2 if the sum of their areas is 24, 000, 000square miles find the area of each desert

Answer 1

4,000,000 and 20,000,000 miles²

let x be the area of one desert then 5x is the area of the other

sum = x + 5x = 24,000,000

6x = 24,000,000

divide both sides by 6

x = 4,000,000

one desert is 4,000,000 miles²

and the other is (5 × 4,000,000)= 20,000,000 miles²

Answer 2

The area of desert one is 20,000,000 square miles and the area of desert 2 is 4,000,000 square miles.

Explanation:

Consider the provided information.

The area of a certain desert desert one is five times the area of another desert desert 2

Let the area of desert 2 is x.

Then the area of desert one is 5x.

The sum of their areas is 24,000,000 square miles.

Therefore,

`x+5x=24,000,000`

`6x=24,000,000`

`x=(24,000,000)/(6)`

`x=4,000,000`

Hence the area of desert 2 is 4,000,000

The area of desert one is 5x = 5×4,000,000 = 20,000,000

Hence, the area of desert one is 20,000,000 square miles and the area of desert 2 is 4,000,000 square miles.