Question

jackie’s report is 5 pages longer than half the number of pages in kane’s report. there are 14 pages in kane’s report. how many pages are in jackie’s report?

Answer 1

Oh! I answered this question last week! Don't know if it was the same exact one, but whatever. So first cut the number of pages in Kate's report in half, then add 5 to that. So, (14÷2)+5

Answer 2

jackie’s report has 12 pages

Explanation:

Hello

let's take this to mathematical terms

Let

A:number of pages in jackie's report

B:number of pages in kane's report

According to the info in the question.

half the number of pages in kane's report=(B/2)

jackie’s report is 5 pages longer than half the number of pages in kane’s report,this means we are comparing the jackie report with half of the kane report, we will put one on each side of the equality

A ≈ (B/2)

now, jackie’s report is 5 pages longer: that means we can take that value and subtract 5 to obtain the half of number of pages in the kane's report

A- 5= (B/2),

or,

you can take the value of half the number of pages of the kane´s report(B) and add 5 to obtain the number of pages of the kacki report(A)

(B/2)+5=A,equation 1

also

B=14,equation 2

replace equation in equation 1 to find A

(14/2)+5=A

7+5=A

A=12

jackie’s report has 12 pages

Have a good day.