Ratios, Proportion, and Percent ASAP PLEASE

Question

A company employs 255 manufacturing employees. There are 3 shifts. Three times as many employees work on the first shift as on the second shift, and 10 fewer work on the third shift than on the second shift. Determine how many employees are on each shift.

Answer 1

Try setting up a system of equations. You could say x is the number of employees on the first shift, y is the number on the second shift, and z is the number on the third shift.