Question

Two small pitchers and one large pitcher can hold 8 pints of beverage. One large pitcher minus one small pitcher constitutes 2 pints of a beverage. How many pints of beverage can each pitcher hold? Set up a system of equations that represents the amount of beverages the pitchers can hold, and solve the system to find the amount each can hold.

Answer 1

Let s= # of pints small pitcher holds
And
b= # of pints big pitcher holds

Answer 2

Next translate the first 2 sentence to number sentence
So we have

2s + b =8
And
b -s = 2

And do you know how to solve for s and b?