Question

A bag contains yellow marbles and blue marbles, 23 in total. The number of yellow marbles is 7 less than 2 times the number of blue marbles. How many yellow marbles are there? Please help its due really soon!

Answer 1

b=10, a=13

Explanation:

let s number of yellow = a

number of blue = b

we have

a+b =23

2b - a = 7

->a+b +2b -a = 23+7

-> 3b = 30

->b = 10

->a = 13