Question

During the basketball game on Thursday, Robert and Adian scored 37 points. Adian

scored 5 less than twice the amount Robert had. How many points did Adian score
on Thursday?
If you could also show the steps that would be great no required though.

Answer 1

Explanation:

So here we need to make two equations, as follows:

`r + a = 37 \\ a = 2r - 5`

R being Robert and A being Aiden

Since we have A alone in the second equation, we can plug that into the first equation

R + (2R - 5) = 37

Let's add 5 to each side

R + 2R = 42

3R = 42

And lastly we will divide by 3 to get R alone

R = 14

Now that we know Robert scored 14 points, we can plug that into the first equation.

R + A = 37

14 + A = 37

Subtracting 14 from both sides

A = 23