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PLEASE HELP! Answer quickly for points!! There are 5 times as many tomato plants as there are cucumber plants. The number of pepper plants is 7 more than the sum as tomato and cucumber plants. There are 19 pepper plants in the garden. How many tomato plants are there. How many cucumber plants are there?

User Abhit
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let x= cucumber plants
5x= tomato plants
6x+7= pepper plants
peppers = 19
therefore
6x+7=19
subtract 7 from both sides
6x= 12
divide both sides by 6
x=2
replace the x with 2

2= cucumber plants
10= tomato plants

hope this helps
User Wuliwong
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