Question

Elise and Miguel both collect baseball cards. Miguel has two more than two times as many cards as Elise. Together they have 971 cards.

a. Write an equation to represent this solution

b. How many cards does each person have?

Answer 1

well let elise have e cards

then miguel has 2e + 2

so together they have

e + 2e + 2 = 971

or

3e + 2 = 971

hope it helps

Answer 2

but how many cards does each one of them have? how do you do the problem?

Answer 3

subtract 2 from both sides of the equation.

then divide both sides of the equation by 3

that will give you elise's cards

then you can calculate Miguels