Question

Melissa the trainer has two solo workout plans that she offers her clients: Plan A and Plan B. Each client does either one or the other (not both). On Wednesday there were 5 clients who did Plan A and 3 who did Plan B. On Thursday there were 2 clients who did Plan A and 12 who did Plan B. Melissa trained her Wednesday clients for a total of 7 hours and her Thursday clients for a total of 19 hours. How long does each of the workout plans last? LengthofeachPlanAworkout:hour(s) LengthofeachPlanBworkout:hour(s)

Answer 1

Let Length of each Plan A workout be
`a`

and Length of each Plan B workout be $b$

on Wednesday,

$5a+3b=7$

$2a+12b=19$

multiply equation one by $4$ and subtract equation two from it

to get,

$18a=9$ or $a=\frac12$

substitute $a$ in eq 2. to get $b$, $12b=18\implies b=\frac32$