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The combined mass of two children is 75lbs. The first child is four times the mass of the second child. What are the masses of the two children?

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first child would be 60 lb and the second is 15
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The second child is about 19lbsif you want to round it otherwise it's 18 something lbs, so the first child is about... 57.
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