sari has 3 times as many erasers as sam together they have 28 erasers how many erasers does sari have

Answer 1

Hi Hope,

Let's use the variable, x, to represent the number of erasers that Sam has.

Then we can write the following expression for the number that Sari has: 3x

Since their sum is 28, we can write and solve the following equation to find the number of erasers each person has:

Sam's erasers + Sari's erasers = 28

x + 3x = 28

4x = 28

4x/4 = 28/4

x = 7

Sam has 7 erasers. Sari will have 3 times more than Sam or 21 erasers.