Question

Elise and Miguel both collect baseball cards, miguel has two more than two times as many as Elise, together they have 971 cards. Write an equation to represent this equation. How many cards does each person have?

Answer 1

2+2e+e=971
Miguel's is 2 more(2+) than two times Elises(2e), and with Elise's(e), 971
Simplify to 3e=969, then find e=323.
e is Elise's, remember? So she has 323 cards.
To find Miguel's, you can subtract 323 from 971, or solve for his portion of the equation. Either way, you get 648

Answer 2

Sorry late reply but thank you so much!!