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Question

Tim has 74 socks all in pairs.He has 1 more pair of white socks than black socks.How many individual color socks does he have than other socks?

Answer 1

Let x be the number of white socks and y be the number of black socks. Since the total number of socks is 74, we can write the equation

x + y = 74.

We're also told Tim has 1 more pair of white socks than black socks, which can be written algebraically as

x = y + 2.

Now you can solve this system of equations quite easily by substitution to find the answer:

x = 38 white socks

y = 36 black socks