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Jessiah has 6 more pencils than grace. miles has twice as many pencils as jessia. they have a total of 50 pencils together. how many pencils does each person have?

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Answer:

Jessiah has 14 pencils

Miles has 28 pencils

Grace has 8 pencils

Explanation:

I'm going to assume that you mean Jessaih instead of Jessia because otherwise it would be impossible to solve

Let the # of Jessaih's pencils equal j, # of Grace's pencils equal g, # of Miles' pencils equal m,

j=g+6

m=2j

So m=2(g+6) or 2g+12

Therefore, g+g+6+2g+12, or 4g+18=50, so g = 8

j=8+6, which is 14

m = 2(14), which is 28

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