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Jack's bowling score was 20 less than twice Jill's score. The sum of their scores was 205. Find the two

scores

User Jpgc
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Answer:

Jacks scores 130 points

Jill scores 75 points

Explanation:

J=Jacks score

K=Jills score

2K-20+K=205

So, we can do 3K-20=205

+20 +20

(cancel it out)

and we are left with 3K=225 which is K=75, so we do do 205-75=130(which is jacks score). To prove this we can do 75x2=150-20=130

User Aruna Karunarathna
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