Homework Help: math

Posted by Marie on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 9:09pm.

deshawn and Luke had an equal number of stickers. After deshawn used 26 stickers and Luke lost 38 stickers. deshawn had twice as many stickers as Luke. how many stickers did each of them have in the beginning ?

math - Jai, Friday, October 21, 2011 at 9:20pm
let x = initial number of stickers
then set up the equation:
x-26 = 2(x-38)
x - 26 = 2x - 76
-x = -76 + 26
-x = -50
x = 50 stickers

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