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the teacher separated her class of twenty-eight student into two group. one group has 4 more than twice as many students as the other group. how many students are in each group?

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There are 20 students in one group and 8 students in the other. To represent this as an equation, x + y = 28, where y = 2x + 4. Therefore, x + 2x + 4 = 28. 3x + 4 = 28. 3x = 24. x = 24/3. x = 8. Put the x value into the y equation and it gives you 20.
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For this case, the first thing we must do is define variables:

x: students of group 1

y: students of group 2

We now write the system of equations that models the problem:


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Solving the system by substitution we have:


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Then, the value of y is given by:


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Answer:

8 students of group 1

20 students of group 2

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