Question

if each person gets 3 apples, there will be 6 apples left. If each person gets 5 apples, 2 people will not get apples, how many people are there

Answer 1

If we let y represent the total number of apples and x represent the number of people, we have two equations:

y = 3x + 6

y = 5x - 2

Solving this system, we have

3x + 6 = 5x - 2

8 = 2x

4 = x

This is says there are 4 people and 18 apples.