Question

At the 2006 olympics Germany won a total of 29 medals they won 1 more silver medal than gold and 5 more gold medals than bronze. Find the number of each type of medals?

Answer 1

You have three variables, (the number of gold, silver, and bronze medals, g, s, b rispectively) and three conditions:
1: sum of all medals is 29: g+s+b= 39
2: 1 more silver than gold: s+1= g
2: 5 more gold than bronze: b+5= g

Answer 2

2 should be s = g + 1 because which is greater, # of silver or # of gold?

Answer 3

oh, and "respectively"

Answer 4

Solve the following for g, s and b, the number of gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.\[\{b+g+s=29,s=1+g,g-5=b\}\]\[\{b\to 6,g\to 11,s\to 12\} \]

Answer 5

thank you robtobey

Answer 6

You're welcome.