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Jimmy Andrew and Richard collect comic books. Jimmy has five more comic books than Andrew, and Richard has four times as many comic book as jimmy. Together they have 145 comic books. Find the number of comic books each person has.

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4 times 5 + A= 145

Step-by-step explanation: As you can see the answer is 4 times 5 pls Andrews number which equals to 145 . I got this answer by using simple inequalty steps .

User Michael Kolber
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Answer: Andrew = 20

Jimmy = 25

Richard = 100

Explanation:

Let the number of Andrew's comic books be y.

Jimmy has five more comic books than Andrew. This means Jimmy has: y+5

Richard has four times as many comic book as jimmy. This means Richard has: 4(y+5) = 4y + 20

Since there are 145 comic books together. This can be rewritten as:

y + (y+5) + (4y+20) = 145

6y+25 = 145

6y = 145 - 25

y = 120/6

y = 20

Andrew has 20 comic books

Jimmy has five more comic books than Andrew. Jimmy has: 20+5 = 25

Richard has: 4y + 20 = 4(20) + 20 = 100

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