Question

13. Xander and Kennedy have a bet to see who can get more "friends" on a social media side after 1 month. Kennedy

has 11 more friends than Xander when they start the competition. After much work, Kennedy doubles her amount
of friends and Xander quadruples (4 times) his. In the end they have a total of 232 friends.

Answer 1

Xander has 140 friends

Kennedy has 92 friends

Explanation:

Let x represent # of friends Xander has at the start

Let x+11 represent # of friends Kennedy has at the start

Let 2(x+11) rep. the final # of friends Kennedy has

Let 4x rep. the final # of friends Xander has

Total = 232

So we just need to solve for x:

2(x+11) + 4x = 232

2x + 22 + 4x = 232

6x = 210

x = 35 < - This means that xander started with 4 friends.

Sub x to find friends for each:

4x = ?

4(35) = 140 friends

2(x+11) = ?

2(35+11) = 92