Question

You and your friend each collect rocks and fessis your friend collects three times as many roots and half as many fossils as you. You

collect 20 objects Your trend collects 20 objects. How many roots and how many fossis do you each collect

Answer 1

Number of rocks and fossils collected by you is 1 and 24 respectively

Number of rocks and fossils collected by your friend is 3 and 12 respectively

Explanation:

Let the number of Rocks you collect be x

Let the number of Fossils you collect be y

Then the total number pf objects you collected will be

x + y = 25

x = 25 - y------------------------------(1)

Your friend collects three times as many rocks and half as many fossils as you.

This can be written as

3x + y (1/2) = 15

3x + (y/2) = 15-------------------(2)

Substituting (1) in (2)

3(25 - y) + (y/2) = 15

75 - 3y + (y/2) = 15

Grouping the like terms we get,

75 - 15 = 3y = (y/2)

60 = ( 6y - y /2)

60 x 2 = 6y -y

120 = 5y

y = 120/5

y = 24

Substituting y value in equation(1) we get

x = 25 - 24

x= 1

y= 24

Friends collects 3 times rock

so collects 3x =3(1) = 3rocks

Also he collects half as many fossils

That is

y/2 = 24/2 = 12 fossils

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