Question

Reid and Maria both play soccer. This season, Reid scored 4 less than twice the number of goals that Maria scored. The difference in the number of goals they scored was 6. How many goals did each of them score?

Answer 1

m = maria's goals
r = reid's goals

r = 2m - 4
m - r = 6

@ivettef365 .....take a peek at this please.....what am I doing wrong...I am getting a negative number

Answer 2

did I set it up wrong ?

Answer 3

@amistre64 ....I am feeling real stupid right now....can you help

Answer 4

set up is good

then r = m-6

Answer 5

I got r = 16 and m = 10

Answer 6

what is wrong is that r -m = 6

Answer 7

I did that because there was a difference of 6 in their scores.

Answer 8

yes, but Reid goes first

Answer 9

if r = 2m - 4 and r = m - 6 then..
m - 6 = 2m - 4.....???

Answer 10

r = 2m - 4
r -m = 6 so r = m+6

m+6 = 2m - 4
4 + 6 = 2m -m
so m = 10

Answer 11

gotcha......I feel stupid

Answer 12

I got confuse at first :)

Answer 13

thanks for coming and straightening everything out :)

Answer 14

not a problem :)

Answer 15

the difference is an absolute value .... the difference between 5 and 2 is:

5 - 2 = 3
2 - 5 = -3

but since we are not concerned with direction ... just magnitude, then |5-2| = |2-5| = 3