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Question

Searches related to trevor has four times the amount of baseball cards thanjim has. alex has half the amount of baseball cards that trevor has. if the boys have 35 cards all together how many does each boy have? write and solve the equation

Answer 1

Let's use some letters to stand for each boy.

T = Trevor

J = Jim

A = Alex

If Trevor has four times the number of baseball cards that Jim has, then we can write 4J for Trevor instead of T (T = 4J).

If Alex has half the number of cards that Trevor has, then A = 2J (since 2 is one-half of 4).

SO:

J + 4J + 2J = 35

7J = 35

J = 5

Therefore, Jim has 5 baseball cards. Trevor has four times that many, or 20 cards, and Alex has half as many as Trevor, or 10 cards.

Let's check to see if our answer is right:

5 + 4(5) + 2(5) = 35

5 + 20 + 10 = 35