What was the population of each metropolitan? area?

Question

A few years? ago, a total of 2683 thousand people lived in the metropolitan areas of Las? Vegas, Nevada, and? Sacramento, California. Sacramento had 281 thousand more residents than Las Vegas. 

Answer 1

Cool so let the pop of Sacramento be x and that of Las Vegas be y

 

x + y = 2683000

 

since the pop of both cities is given

 

 next our second equation is based on the fact that Sacramento has 281000 more people hang las vegas

 

x = 281000+y

 

now substitute or do in eq 1

 

281,000+2y = 2,683,000

 

2y = 2,402,000

 

y = 1,201,000

 

thats the population of Las Vegas and Sacramento would be

 

x = 1,482,000

 

those are your answers.