David's bowling score is 4 less that 3 times Aaron's score. The sum of their scores is 136. Find the score of each student.

Question

It's a word problem

Answer 1

Aaron's score X, then David's is 3X-4

 

X+3X-4=136

4X-4=136

4X=140

X=35

And David's is 3*35-4=

101