calorios per breakfast

Question

A particular 2029 -calories-per-day diet suggests eating breakfast, lunch, dinner, and two snacks. Dinner is twice the calories of breakfast. Lunch is 55 calories more than breakfast. The two snacks 116 are 82 and calories. How many calories are each meal?

Answer 1

b=# of calories for breakfast

2b=# of calories for dinner

b+55=# of calories for lunch

b+2b+b+55+116+82=2029

4b+253=2029

4b=2029-253

4b=1776

b=1776/4

b=444 calories for breakfast

2b=888 calories for dinner

b+55=499 calories for lunch