Question

in one baseball season, peter hit twice the difference of the number of home runs alice hit and 3. altogether, they hit 9 home runs. how many home runs did each player hit that season? let h represent alice's home runs.

Answer 1

• Alice 5
• Peter 4

Explanation:

We're told to use h for Alice's homers. Then Peter's homers were ...

2(h -3) . . . . twice the difference of Alice's and 3

Then the total is ...

9 = h + 2(h -3) = 3h -6

15 = 3h

5 = h

Alice hit 5 homers; Peter hit 4.